Wes

Clean Energy and thermodynamics; disabled after thirty years designing, selling and installing geothermal heat pump and energy management systems.

[Wes @WestonACX]

@nypost Where have I seen that smile..🤔

[Wes @WestonACX]

Mood https://t.co/JeddyQm2qT https://t.co/MYd8z1IlZN

[Wes @WestonACX]

@ColMoeDavis You know where and when that got inside our government and became our president eventually, of course.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Jim Bakker died.

When I was about 8 or 9, he and his first wife Tammy Faye hosted a kids show on Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network. By the time I was in college a decade later, the pair had parlayed their TV skills into the PTL Club, which many of us referred to as the Pass the Loot Club. I remember me and my roommates stumbling in late at night and turning on PTL for a laugh as Jim and Tammy cried — mascara streaming down her face — pleading with their followers to send money ASAP because Jesus told them he wanted them to raise a million dollars by midnight and they couldn’t let the Lord down.

Jim and Tammy Faye lived an opulent lifestyle thanks to the scores of ordinary people who would do without to support them and ostensibly the Lord with regular five, ten, and twenty dollar donations. I remember a journalist asking Jim about the gold plated plumbing in the mansion he built at Heritage Village and Jim responded that he was a servant of God and God didn’t deserve no junk.

The whole fleecing the flock scheme came crashing down when Jim had an affair with church secretary Jessica Hahn (who went on to do a spread in Playboy magazine) and he got busted for paying her off with PTL funds and for embezzling millions for personal use. Jim went to prison and he and Tammy Faye got divorced.

I’ve mentioned before that I see parallels between PTL and MAGA. Both are or were led by immoral conmen who lived large on the backs of gullible rubes who were willing to ignore reality to embrace a slimy huckster they thought understood and looked out for them. There used to be a band called Blind Faith, which is also a pretty accurate description of those who fell under PTL and MAGA spells.

Regardless of one’s religious beliefs, you kind of hope there is a literal hell and that it holds a special place for those who enriched themselves by perverting the teachings of Jesus to exploit and harm others.

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[CNN International @cnni]

Germany's federal prosecutor's office said a former foreign intelligence chief has been arrested on espionage allegations. https://t.co/dyj57XUduy

[Wes @WestonACX]

@atrupar 🤭

[Wes @WestonACX]

@nexta_tv They are walking the streets in a lot of places like they just think they belong there…just roaming….not a care in the world.

[Wes @WestonACX]

It’s weird that it would attack something that large putting her cub in more danger instead of running. If it were just a person I can see her attacking in defense but something like that…? Her instinct should have been to run like hell with her cub…there was guy near here that got attacked on his tractor…and I saw a story about twenty other attacks…it’s weird.

[Wes @WestonACX]

@nexta_tv Not just Japan either, a lot of places, it’s really weird idk what is going on.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

BREAKING: Television pastor Jim Bakker, who served time in prison for defrauding his followers in the 1980s, has died. He was 86. https://t.co/niExPbHU0T

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

Jim Bakker, the televangelist who built a Christian broadcasting empire before a sex scandal and fraud conviction destroyed his ministry, has died at 86. https://t.co/DE5e0hT3LE

[Wes @WestonACX]

@thedailybeast The story of entire lives spent imprisoned by their conservative lies about faith. I f hope everyone sees the f glaringly obvious pattern…

[ABC News @ABC]

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.

Read more: https://t.co/MiM1toQj0U

[Wes @WestonACX]

The universe wants them out of our system…

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

A top American biologist believes that Russia’s mysterious pneumonic plague outbreak could actually be something much more sinister. https://t.co/mzxMlGHZdO

[Wes @WestonACX]

@DailyMail They ain’t gonna be able to hide it for more than two weeks ***if*** it’s gain of function antibiotic resistant plague…then the sh!t gets real…I can’t even keep up in my imagination with the number of horseman charging the apocalypse at that point…

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Russian media claims a second victim has died from 'plague outbreak' at infection zone hospital as Kremlin scrambles to cover up details https://t.co/RQQ9r234Tx

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

I know it's been shown before, but in case there's someone that missed it..

Trump blames Ukraine for higher fuel prices only because he wants to take sanctions off Russia to enable the big Russian oil deal Putin is offering his fucking family AND to deflect from his Iran debacle that's actually the cause of that high oil.

[POLITICO @politico]

Jim Bakker, prominent televangelist waylaid by scandal, dies at 86 https://t.co/cQk2CnWm8U

[Wes @WestonACX]

@politico Just ftr, Jesus hated his type better than anyone ever, wild grape vines with bitter grapes…smdh. 🤷🏼‍♂️ it’s all coming to an orange head…