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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

Chasstev365
(6,138 posts)Faux pas
(15,875 posts)she should go fuck the hump
SWBTATTReg
(25,641 posts)was writing their name on a blank piece of paper.
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)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)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.
Hekate
(99,273 posts)allegorical oracle
(5,657 posts)scoundrels. Like her boss, Leavitt covers both bases.
Trueblue Texan
(3,699 posts)...as the president she worships?
erronis
(21,176 posts)Hekate
(99,273 posts)that apparently requires blood sacrifices on a routine basis. Nothing like Jesus a lot more like Moloch.
mucholderthandirt
(1,659 posts)maxsolomon
(37,253 posts)But the Christian Persecution narrative is exhausting.
Hekate
(99,273 posts)maxsolomon
(37,253 posts)because
Hekate
(99,273 posts)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)Psaki: I felt a mixture of angerâa lot of angerâand emotional exhaustion about this today, as Iâm sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-08-28T01:19:41.003Z
And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
travelingthrulife
(3,135 posts)When you make 'suffering' the goal of your existence, it really pisses you off when others are not suffering.
Emile
(37,198 posts)Hassler
(4,508 posts)Became Orange Julius Seizure's Spokesliar after a mediocre college softball career.
rubbersole
(10,398 posts)How you can insult tens of millions mediocre college softball players...🙄
UpInArms
(53,338 posts)If prayer worked
It would have stopped those bullets
they were praying
sprinkleeninow
(21,525 posts)It is written.
Solly Mack
(95,567 posts)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)There.
Solly Mack
(95,567 posts)Johonny
(24,483 posts)Of just praying like we do for school shootings? Sad really.
republianmushroom
(21,238 posts)your boss would be buried beside a hand basin. So we could wash after pissing on his grave.
surfered
(8,938 posts)
chowder66
(11,215 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(128,141 posts)purr-rat beauty
(773 posts)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)Even as press secretary to the White House House, you dont even come close to Ms Psakis credibility.
JoseBalow
(8,309 posts)
kacekwl
(8,537 posts)actually in church PRAYING when they were shot. Kind of a direct line to god right.
soldierant
(8,897 posts)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.
twodogsbarking
(15,467 posts)LonePirate
(14,211 posts)90-percent
(6,948 posts)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
spanone
(140,012 posts)Karasu
(1,955 posts)Emile
(37,198 posts)she jerks her head when she speaks. OMG, she is a really nasty human.
cachukis
(3,418 posts)erronis
(21,176 posts)Wiz Imp
(6,826 posts)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
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)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.
Cirsium
(2,838 posts)The people around Trump are evil.
Karasu
(1,955 posts)accomplishes anything.
There is no valid substitute for action.
Retrograde
(11,265 posts)according the Epistle of James. But I forget - MAGAt bibles seem to omit the New Testament.
aeromanKC
(3,699 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(42,601 posts)If you've seen it, you know. Or, you should.
KitFox
(381 posts)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)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)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)There is zero evidence or proof that prayers work.
There is plenty of evidence that they don't.
MiHale
(12,103 posts)Her boss would not be around hed be dead in prison sucking his thumb as he plays with his twiddle in the corner of a dark bedroom but alas hes here murders continue.
Heidi
(58,626 posts)Its incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of thinking Americans for Ms. Leavitt to claim she does.
Aristus
(70,723 posts)Run for the hills!
Ping Tung
(3,505 posts)Heidi
(58,626 posts)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 anyones approval or even anyones knowledge that youre doing it. Why so sensitive, *snowflake*? Is it because you cant force your placebo down everyone elses 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)And is a nasty piece of work