I’ve always wanted to ask one of the idiots using that phrase - “What EXACTLY are your thoughts and prayers for these people? Do you pray that some miracle will happen that makes crazy people not shoot up the neighborhood? Do you think about ways to stop this from happening again? Do you pray that it never happens to your own family? What EXACTLY are the thoughts and prayers you think are going to help in these situations and will stop them from happening again?”
My thoughts and prayers are that the NRA's executives would be held personally responsible for the loss of each and every beloved human being whose life was stolen from and friends, and their families.
“Thoughts and prayers,” like “Originalism,” are concocted code words to justify and distract from a pre-ordained political position preserving power for white male “Conservatives” and their female allies displaying classic Freudian “identification with the aggressor.” Good examples are Kari Lake and Elise Stefanik.
I think you mean Vengeance, that was the B.J. Novak film, but I wanted to share that the film "Revenge" was INTENSE but very relevant to this conversation :D https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738136/
I can’t conceive of a more meaningless phrase than “thoughts and prayers.”
I’ve always wanted to ask one of the idiots using that phrase - “What EXACTLY are your thoughts and prayers for these people? Do you pray that some miracle will happen that makes crazy people not shoot up the neighborhood? Do you think about ways to stop this from happening again? Do you pray that it never happens to your own family? What EXACTLY are the thoughts and prayers you think are going to help in these situations and will stop them from happening again?”
"Thoughtless prayers" is much more accurate. There is no thinking involved.
Well said, sir!
They would give you a blank stare, while they waited for Fox to give them an answer
My thoughts and prayers are that the NRA's executives would be held personally responsible for the loss of each and every beloved human being whose life was stolen from and friends, and their families.
The interesting thing about "thoughts and prayers"?
They appear to be correlated with increased mass shootings.
The more we say that phrase, the more shootings there are.
"Thoughts and Prayers" means "I acknowledge that you are collateral damage but it's worth it so I can keep my job by indulging paranoid fantasies".
“Thoughts and prayers,” like “Originalism,” are concocted code words to justify and distract from a pre-ordained political position preserving power for white male “Conservatives” and their female allies displaying classic Freudian “identification with the aggressor.” Good examples are Kari Lake and Elise Stefanik.
So true; "thoughts and prayers" had acquired the implied meaning, "I'm not going to think about this anymore, and you know that."
They still think that has resonance, it is the equivalent to the meaningless “ bless your heart.”
I think you mean Vengeance, that was the B.J. Novak film, but I wanted to share that the film "Revenge" was INTENSE but very relevant to this conversation :D https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738136/
Gag me with a spoon.