December 14, 2020, 12:27 pm
Supporters of the outgoing president had quite a weekend, with thousands of Proud Boys and other far-right agitators marching through the streets of Washington D.C., vandalizing Black churches and stabbing people. At the same time, their less physically violent counterparts spent the daylight hours holding a “Keep Christmas” rally to fight against the perceived cancellation of Christmas because of pandemic lockdowns and/or Joe Biden’s existence.
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One woman, in particular, encouraged proper Christians to take videos of themselves and others doing Christmas things and post them online with the hashtag “#KeepChristmas.” This way, she argued, they would be “flooding the darkness of social media with light.”
The rally reportedly attracted a number of high-profile Trump supporters including the My Pillow guy, Mike Lindell, who made a speech that consisted primarily of spreading the usual debunked lines about election fraud. He listed through states, claiming something about “dumps” in Michigan and so on, in a rant almost as nonsensical as a Trump one.
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“I watched it, and I watched it go from [weird noise], the rate it was going up, Donald Trump would have won Arizona even with the fraud!” he claimed. “But they had to double-fraud it.”
And that was maybe the easiest part of his speech to transcribe.
Perhaps even more amazing, however, was the man who followed Lindell to literally promote a promo code for the My Pillow website and generally shill for pillows.
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“I love his pillows. I love his sheets. I love his mattress topper,” said the speaker. “The Kraken has been released! You are part of the Kraken! So, for the best deals to support this patriot, use the code Kraken at my-pillow-dot-com.”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Perhaps the funniest moment, though competition for that title is fierce, came from a woman who claimed all holidays for Jesus, saying that the word is short for “holy days.” Technically, she’s not wrong, as the word “holiday” is derived from an Old English word that meant “holy day.” However, in a society that celebrates numerous holidays that have nothing at all to do with religion, and in one that ignores many non-Christian holy days, her point doesn’t come across well.
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“It’s so important to keep ‘holidays,’ those are actually ‘holy days.’ God has given them to us for a reason. It is because he wants us to teach our children about the principles of our faith and do it in a way that’s fun, that a child can remember,” she rants. “We cannot let Thanksgiving and Christmas go by, and our children not be taught about the holiness of why we do those things.”
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Arbor Day must be wild in Christian households.
*First Published: December 14, 2020, 12:27 pm
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