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Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think ..."

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Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works."

August 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works."

August 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they're incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-08-28T17:32:38.778Z
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Karoline Leavitt: "I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think ..." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 28 OP
GO FUCK YOURSELF LEAVITT! Chasstev365 Aug 28 #1
Lol better yet, Faux pas Aug 28 #48
She gets dumber and dumber. A perfect choice for tRUMP and his idiot thugs whose biggest accomplishment SWBTATTReg Aug 28 #2
Maybe popsdenver Aug 28 #43
prayers don't stop gun carnage, do they, KAROLINE Skittles Aug 28 #3
I just read some of the comments Ms. Levitt made about Christians and Prayer... haele Aug 28 #13
I say Amen, and Amen again Hekate Aug 28 #17
It's a toss-up as to whether patriotism or religion is the last refuge of allegorical oracle Friday #53
Maybe, the God she prays to is as incompetent... Trueblue Texan Aug 28 #25
Or that vengeful god is quite competent. It just ain't my god (if I actually wanted one.) erronis Aug 28 #27
21st century American Christian Evangelicals finally drove me to polytheism. Their god is a mean, nasty, god... Hekate Aug 28 #32
I went atheist, then pagan, now I'm back to being an atheist. I believe in science, if anything. mucholderthandirt Friday #50
No idea what Psaki said. maxsolomon Aug 28 #4
Jen Psaki apparently wept actual tears, like a human with a broken heart 💔 Hekate Aug 28 #16
did she say that tots and pears does nothing to stop mass murders? maxsolomon Aug 28 #20
I didn't see it for myself-- only read about it here, so I don't know Hekate Aug 28 #30
Here's the clip of Psaki. Swede Friday #56
Endless 'suffering' travelingthrulife Friday #59
Well apparently someone wasn't listening. Emile Aug 28 #5
Karolyin the cross-wearing Lievett Hassler Aug 28 #6
Why, I never... rubbersole Aug 28 #24
Wow! UpInArms Aug 28 #7
..... sprinkleeninow Aug 28 #8
It's just plain fair to deny science can prevent a disease but don't let anyone say prayer can't prevent a disease. Solly Mack Aug 28 #9
And if you send me $99.99 today, I'll promise you all children will go to heaven. erronis Aug 28 #35
Now that's a bargain. Solly Mack Aug 28 #47
Why did we send the National Guard to DC instead Johonny Aug 28 #10
Ms. Leavitt if prays worked you would be unemployed and republianmushroom Aug 28 #11
This surfered Aug 28 #12
She defends a lying criminal sexual abuser. chowder66 Aug 28 #14
Gold digging skank says what? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 28 #15
Oh STFU purr-rat beauty Aug 28 #18
Frankly, Ms Leavitt, we don't give a damn what you think. Deuxcents Aug 28 #19
Doesn't prayer imply that you know better than your god? JoseBalow Aug 28 #21
I think the shooting victims were kacekwl Aug 28 #22
"IF you have faith the size of a mustard seed..." soldierant Aug 28 #23
Everyone was praying you wouldn't be so fucking stupid. Now you try and tell us it works. twodogsbarking Aug 28 #26
The sooner the US realizes that prayers never work and religious belief is a mental illness, the better off we will be. LonePirate Aug 28 #28
Dumb all over 90-percent Aug 28 #29
America, where you can no longer voice an opinion. spanone Aug 28 #31
You certainly can't voice facts. Opinions are all fine and dandy, as long as you spin them as facts to support fascism. Karasu Aug 28 #42
She has the fascist attitude down pat. The way Emile Aug 28 #33
The famous STEP study of 2006 about prayer. cachukis Aug 28 #34
Soon to be wiped from the NIH PubMed site. erronis Aug 28 #36
Evidence? cachukis Aug 28 #44
It's right here on the NIH website (at least for now) Wiz Imp Friday #54
Yes. Sorry. Was just saying for those who want to deny. cachukis Friday #58
Pure evil Cirsium Aug 28 #37
Send your (insincere) thoughts and prayers if that makes you feel any better, Karoline. Just don't pretend it fucking Karasu Aug 28 #38
Faith without works is dead Retrograde Aug 28 #39
If prayer worked, he'd be dead already!! aeromanKC Aug 28 #40
*Monty Python's Life of Brian* sums it all up brilliantly Oeditpus Rex Aug 28 #41
Pat Bagley perfectly nails it, as always. As does the Newsom troll nickname, Karolyin' KitFox Aug 28 #45
I'll never understand Oeditpus Rex Aug 28 #46
Prayer helps the person praying feel better... Wounded Bear Aug 28 #49
Karoline prove it. SamKnause Friday #51
If prayers really worked we wouldn't be having this conversation... MiHale Friday #52
The problem is that she *doesn't* think. Heidi Friday #55
Oh noes! Press Secretary Nosejob is offended! Aristus Friday #57
A message to St. Karoline from Mark Twain: Ping Tung Friday #60
No one can keep anyone from praying, Ms. Leavitt. Heidi Friday #61
She's as ridiculous as she looks. I'd say dumb as but she clearly knows what she's doing Iris Friday #62

SWBTATTReg

(25,641 posts)
2. She gets dumber and dumber. A perfect choice for tRUMP and his idiot thugs whose biggest accomplishment
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:44 PM
Aug 28

was writing their name on a blank piece of paper.

popsdenver

(376 posts)
43. Maybe
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:39 PM
Aug 28

her "silicone sisters" are leaking and traveling to her brain............(seems like a pre-requisite for all the women who surround Trump....seriously)

Skittles

(167,043 posts)
3. prayers don't stop gun carnage, do they, KAROLINE
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 06:44 PM
Aug 28

but of course she knows that......but prayer makes people feel better about not doing ANYTHING that might actually help to change things, so they do serve that "purpose"

haele

(14,543 posts)
13. I just read some of the comments Ms. Levitt made about Christians and Prayer...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:38 PM
Aug 28

And as someone who actually has read the KJV, the Vulgate, and the Apocrypha (along with the Koran and the Talmud), and actually listened in Sunday School, I think she's highly insulting to Jesus, his Disciples, and blasphemes against her own God on a regular basis.
The only conclusions I can come to when trading the words she says and watching what she actually does is:
1. She defines prayer as wishful thinking, and practices manipulation, cheating and lying to get what she wants.
2. She sees her religion -and claims of coincidental "God's Will" - as a useful tool to pull one over confused or frightened people. By claiming to understand God's coincidences, she can get a lot of people to give her what she wants.
3. Like most Evangelicals and populist religious commentator/"leaders", she's an extremely blasphemous liar who obviously doesn't believe her God exists, or she wouldn't be so proficient in prolifically grifting off her God's devout believers.

allegorical oracle

(5,657 posts)
53. It's a toss-up as to whether patriotism or religion is the last refuge of
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:26 AM
Friday

scoundrels. Like her boss, Leavitt covers both bases.

Hekate

(99,273 posts)
32. 21st century American Christian Evangelicals finally drove me to polytheism. Their god is a mean, nasty, god...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:36 PM
Aug 28

…that apparently requires blood sacrifices on a routine basis. Nothing like Jesus — a lot more like Moloch.

mucholderthandirt

(1,659 posts)
50. I went atheist, then pagan, now I'm back to being an atheist. I believe in science, if anything.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:36 AM
Friday

Hekate

(99,273 posts)
30. I didn't see it for myself-- only read about it here, so I don't know
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:32 PM
Aug 28

One thing about the Evangelicals is that they never learned that “Faith without works is dead” Thoughts & Prayers is a mockery unless they want to pass some gun control legislation.

These little ones were in a Catholic school attending Mass on the first day of classes. They were indeed praying.

Swede

(37,213 posts)
56. Here's the clip of Psaki.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:52 AM
Friday

Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times.

And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.

Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-08-28T01:19:41.003Z

travelingthrulife

(3,135 posts)
59. Endless 'suffering'
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:16 AM
Friday

When you make 'suffering' the goal of your existence, it really pisses you off when others are not suffering.

Hassler

(4,508 posts)
6. Karolyin the cross-wearing Lievett
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:11 PM
Aug 28

Became Orange Julius Seizure's Spokesliar after a mediocre college softball career.

rubbersole

(10,398 posts)
24. Why, I never...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:13 PM
Aug 28

How you can insult tens of millions mediocre college softball players...🙄

Solly Mack

(95,567 posts)
9. It's just plain fair to deny science can prevent a disease but don't let anyone say prayer can't prevent a disease.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:23 PM
Aug 28

Because everyone knows that your faith is just as good as science - even better.

Prayer stops bullets, car wrecks, plane crashes, pandemics, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

Who needs science or warnings or vaccines or regulations when all you have to do is pray?

And if prayer doesn't work, then it was God's will - so shut up!

Why do you hate God?


erronis

(21,176 posts)
35. And if you send me $99.99 today, I'll promise you all children will go to heaven.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:41 PM
Aug 28

There.

Johonny

(24,483 posts)
10. Why did we send the National Guard to DC instead
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:25 PM
Aug 28

Of just praying like we do for school shootings? Sad really.

republianmushroom

(21,238 posts)
11. Ms. Leavitt if prays worked you would be unemployed and
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:28 PM
Aug 28

your boss would be buried beside a hand basin. So we could wash after pissing on his grave.

purr-rat beauty

(773 posts)
18. Oh STFU
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:57 PM
Aug 28

The Mouth of Sauron is concerned about the power of prayer being challenged...

...doesn't give an F that her boss is a child sex abuser.

Deuxcents

(23,810 posts)
19. Frankly, Ms Leavitt, we don't give a damn what you think.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:57 PM
Aug 28

Even as press secretary to the White House House, you don’t even come close to Ms Psaki’s credibility.

kacekwl

(8,537 posts)
22. I think the shooting victims were
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:07 PM
Aug 28

actually in church PRAYING when they were shot. Kind of a direct line to god right.

soldierant

(8,897 posts)
23. "IF you have faith the size of a mustard seed..."
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:09 PM
Aug 28

says the Bible.

So if their prayers aren't working - and they clearly aren't - what does that say about your faith?

(Not that anyone with two eyes, two ears, and a brain needed any more evidence than they provide daily by their actions and their words to know that.

LonePirate

(14,211 posts)
28. The sooner the US realizes that prayers never work and religious belief is a mental illness, the better off we will be.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:27 PM
Aug 28

90-percent

(6,948 posts)
29. Dumb all over
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:31 PM
Aug 28

A suitable zappa song for this thread..


"........but if we're dumb, then god is dumb. And maybe a little ugly on the side".


Please youtube it for extra credit.


90% jimmy

Karasu

(1,955 posts)
42. You certainly can't voice facts. Opinions are all fine and dandy, as long as you spin them as facts to support fascism.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:22 PM
Aug 28

Emile

(37,198 posts)
33. She has the fascist attitude down pat. The way
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:38 PM
Aug 28

she jerks her head when she speaks. OMG, she is a really nasty human.

erronis

(21,176 posts)
36. Soon to be wiped from the NIH PubMed site.
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:44 PM
Aug 28
Conclusions: Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications.

Wiz Imp

(6,826 posts)
54. It's right here on the NIH website (at least for now)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:46 AM
Friday
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/

Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients: a multicenter randomized trial of uncertainty and certainty of receiving intercessory prayer

Background: Intercessory prayer is widely believed to influence recovery from illness, but claims of benefits are not supported by well-controlled clinical trials. Prior studies have not addressed whether prayer itself or knowledge/certainty that prayer is being provided may influence outcome. We evaluated whether (1) receiving intercessory prayer or (2) being certain of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with uncomplicated recovery after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

Methods: Patients at 6 US hospitals were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: 604 received intercessory prayer after being informed that they may or may not receive prayer; 597 did not receive intercessory prayer also after being informed that they may or may not receive prayer; and 601 received intercessory prayer after being informed they would receive prayer. Intercessory prayer was provided for 14 days, starting the night before CABG. The primary outcome was presence of any complication within 30 days of CABG. Secondary outcomes were any major event and mortality.

Results: In the 2 groups uncertain about receiving intercessory prayer, complications occurred in 52% (315/604) of patients who received intercessory prayer versus 51% (304/597) of those who did not (relative risk 1.02, 95% CI 0.92-1.15). Complications occurred in 59% (352/601) of patients certain of receiving intercessory prayer compared with the 52% (315/604) of those uncertain of receiving intercessory prayer (relative risk 1.14, 95% CI 1.02-1.28). Major events and 30-day mortality were similar across the 3 groups.

Conclusions: Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complications.

cachukis

(3,418 posts)
58. Yes. Sorry. Was just saying for those who want to deny.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:08 AM
Friday

In my Semantics class, I taught my level 5's about how people, when presented evidence that refuted their perspective, would 70% of the time, revert back to their own view within 20 minutes or so.
To prove my point, I presented a synopsis of this study and simply asked for a one page analysis of the information.
Only 20 or 30 % changed their point of view.
I followed up with a study on why people held to their opinions. It was the power they had attained, even by being wrong.
This is an example of how difficult it is to get trumpers out of their cult.

Karasu

(1,955 posts)
38. Send your (insincere) thoughts and prayers if that makes you feel any better, Karoline. Just don't pretend it fucking
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:01 PM
Aug 28

accomplishes anything.

There is no valid substitute for action.

Retrograde

(11,265 posts)
39. Faith without works is dead
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:02 PM
Aug 28

according the Epistle of James. But I forget - MAGAt bibles seem to omit the New Testament.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,601 posts)
41. *Monty Python's Life of Brian* sums it all up brilliantly
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:13 PM
Aug 28

If you've seen it, you know. Or, you should.

KitFox

(381 posts)
45. Pat Bagley perfectly nails it, as always. As does the Newsom troll nickname, Karolyin'
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 09:54 PM
Aug 28

She really is a complete version of the North Korean Central News Agency “newscaster”. This on the heels of that slobbering, groveling sycophantic Cabinet Meeting and the CDC degradation makes you want to keep a barf bag handy.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,601 posts)
46. I'll never understand
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:01 PM
Aug 28

how right-wingers can hear or read something from someone who's not like them and misinterpret it to the point that it's no longer composed of any element science is aware of.

Wounded Bear

(62,869 posts)
49. Prayer helps the person praying feel better...
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:03 PM
Aug 28

Other than that, I can't really see the purpose if they get up from praying and do nothing else, or like in many cases actually obstruct any attempts to solve the problem of gun violence.

SamKnause

(14,410 posts)
51. Karoline prove it.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 06:48 AM
Friday

There is zero evidence or proof that prayers work.

There is plenty of evidence that they don't.

MiHale

(12,103 posts)
52. If prayers really worked we wouldn't be having this conversation...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 07:17 AM
Friday

Her boss would not be around…he’d be dead…in prison…sucking his thumb as he plays with his twiddle in the corner of a dark bedroom…but alas…he’s here…murders continue.

Heidi

(58,626 posts)
55. The problem is that she *doesn't* think.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:52 AM
Friday

It’s incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of thinking Americans for Ms. Leavitt to claim she does.

Ping Tung

(3,505 posts)
60. A message to St. Karoline from Mark Twain:
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:52 AM
Friday
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" Mark Twain

Heidi

(58,626 posts)
61. No one can keep anyone from praying, Ms. Leavitt.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:01 PM
Friday

I was raised Southern Baptist and it was drilled into me from a very early age that prayer is a personal communication with “God.” You can do that anywhere, anytime and without anyone’s approval or even anyone’s knowledge that you’re doing it. Why so sensitive, *snowflake*? Is it because you can’t force your placebo down everyone else’s throat? Is it a distraction from the widely known fact that your orange “savior” was besties with a convicted pedophile? All of the above?


Matthew 6:6
King James Version
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.


Iris

(16,597 posts)
62. She's as ridiculous as she looks. I'd say dumb as but she clearly knows what she's doing
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:56 PM
Friday

And is a nasty piece of work

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