‘By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets,’ Daily Show host says of White House spokeswoman

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was seen without her cross necklace following the mockery of Daily Show host Jon Stewart.

Leavitt appeared for her briefing on Tuesday in a navy blazer, but she had chosen to forego her signature jewelry.

On Monday night, Stewart skewered Leavitt, saying, “By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets. Is that possible? It’s like some sort of weird Pinocchio cross.”

The host also noted that Leavitt is likely to be “the only one” who will be able to leave the administration “unscathed … Because I don’t think that she has any principles in there left to die.”

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    So when it came down to a choice between her faith and Trump, she ditched her faith. Yeah, that checks.

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      I grew up with people like this. The cross is purely for virtue signalling. It has no real value to them other than being like a Costco membership card to get access to manipulate people who are easily manipulated by such things.

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        Near where I live a church put up one of those 50 foot tall aluminum-siding crosses.

        1. There are still hungry and homeless people, but that’s how you choose to spend your money?

        2. If you have to put up a giant symbol to show you’re a church, you’re probably not a very good church. After all, as some guy who I’m totally blanking on his name once said, you will know a tree by the fruits it bears.

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          Are you 100% certain it’s not a cell phone tower?

          These are often just appear as a sheet metal pillar from the outside. If you see a small windowless concrete hut surrounded by a fence somewhere on the property, the church could be leasing to a telecom and hiding the antennas inside their oversized idol. Icing on the cake is that this is often a method the telecoms use to hide their operations from local municipalities so that they can avoid taxes until caught.

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            I am, yeah. I have to drive past it every day so I saw it during construction and at no point was any equipment installed inside it. It’s tall enough to be seen from the interstate but not tall enough to be a cellular tower. Also there’s no equipment vault nearby either.

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          If you have to put up a giant symbol to show you’re a church, you’re probably not a very good church.

          Insert “awkward look monkey puppet” meme dressed as a bishop with an ornate Gothic cathedral in the background

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      Here is an easy way to tell: If someone wears a cross, that isn’t a strong indication of faith. If a cross wears them, that’s a pretty strong indication of faith.

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      Why would she have to give up her faith to be duplicitous and deliberately cruel?

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        She’ll end up podcasting from her basement and irradiating her testicles with manosphere-branded red lights?

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          She’ll end up podcasting from her basement and irradiating her testicles with manosphere-branded red lights?

          Quite literally the only reason I’d watch her.

          DON’TKINKSHAMEME!

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      The World State is built upon the principles of Henry Ford’s assembly line: mass production, homogeneity, predictability, and consumption of disposable consumer goods. While the World State lacks any supernatural-based religions, Ford himself is revered as the creator of their society but not as a deity, and characters celebrate Ford Day and swear oaths by his name (e.g., “By Ford!”). In this sense, some fragments of traditional religion are present, such as Christian crosses, which had their tops cut off to be changed to a “T”, representing the Ford Model T.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#The_World_State_and_Fordism

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      As being a narcissistic sociopath is basically a prerequisite for working in this administration, she likely doesn’t handle ridicule well, and thus no cross.

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    I want the unimaginable amount of harm Bimbo-Goebbeles is doing to be called out. She’s not just lying, she’s actively normalized institutional gaslighting, basically setting up the premise necessary for the public to have just enough doubt about the veracity of the horrific stuff they’ll hear about that it empowers the fascists to move on to more and more horrible deeds… Holy smokes this bunch is dangerous

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    Sorry there Baghdad Barbie II: Fascist Boogaloo, you already broke that whole thou shall not bear false witness multiple times, you’re still going to hell and removing your fake symbol isn’t going to help that.

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      I’m never sure if people like this are so deep in their cult that they honestly believe they are doing just things or if they know there is no god.

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    Lordy, this is good:

    On Monday night, Stewart skewered Leavitt, saying, “By the way, I think that the more she lies, the bigger her cross gets. Is that possible? It’s like some sort of weird Pinocchio cross.”

    But this requires a desperate call to the local burn unit:

    The host also noted that Leavitt is likely to be “the only one” who will be able to leave the administration “unscathed … Because I don’t think that she has any principles in there left to die.”

    I don’t know much about this person, but my attention has been drawn. And I shamefully admit, I’ll be looking to hear of the size of a crucifix she might choose to wear on any given day.

    Choose one too small, and one might question her lack of faith. If missing altogether, it could be interpreted as blasphemy.

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    Here’s a necklace idea for TACO Belle:

    Chihuahua locket

    Hopefully Kristi Noem Is triggered and pulls out her SOP for bad puppies.