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    Imagine being so desperately religious that you choose one of the worst human beings in history to be the new Messiah of yours 😂🤣.

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    Can easily be tested. Just crucify him on Friday, and check whether he left the grave on Sunday.

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    Cool, so we’ll be parading him through DC, nailing him to a cross, and jamming a spear in him later today then, right?

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    The beatification of Trump shouldn’t come as a surprise. During his four years in the Liberal Wilderness (you have to start building the mythology), there was a concerted effort to transform him into a Christian Prophet, which the media almost entirely ignored.

    During the Biden years, Traitor General Michael Flynn organized a traveling road show of conservative/ evangelical speakers, called the ReAwaken America Tour, which I thought was a bizarre title, since that would make America “Woke,” right? Anyway, I digress.

    This tour featured speakers extolling the virtues of MAGA and White Christian Nationalism, with the common thread establishing Trump’s religious plausibility. All of the MAGA All-Stars appeared at one time or another, but his daughter-in-law Lara, who he wasn’t particularly fond of, was a regular. Her standard speech claimed that she was in direct daily contact with God himself, and he had explicitly told her that Trump was his chosen emissary to lead America into its White Christian Nationalist Future. She claims that God TOLD her that Trump was his personally anointed prophet, like Jesus himself.

    If you’re wondering what Trump thought about that, he later rewarded her with the co-chair of the RNC.

    They basically were trying to establish him as a credible religious figure, the way the Apprentice established the myth of him being as a successful businessman. That was their post-Presidential plan, and if he hadn’t won the presidency again, Plan B was creating a religion, and it looks like they’re starting to dust off that plan again, in case he is forced to leave office in 2028.

    The pivot to religion makes perfect sense. A political position can beg for money, but it is heavily regulated. A religion can beg for money from anyone, with no limits on amounts, sources, etc. Not only can they take whatever they want, from anyone they wanted, from anywhere they want, it’s tax-exempt, and there are no requirement a to report ANYTHING, from donations to expenditures. It’s the perfect operation for a money launderer, which has been Trump’s primary business for years.

    So when he’s out of office, and facing corruption charges from every direction, expect them to play him as a martyr, being persecuted by the ANTIFA Atheists, comparing Trump to Jesus, and the judge to Pontius Pilate, in an attempt to intimidate the prosecution. You wouldn’t prosecute JESUS would you?

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        To be honest, that’s kind of an unimaginative reading.

        Nothing says the censers being thrust down from heaven have to be meteorites. They could be orbit-to-surface missiles.

        Likewise, the “locusts” described aren’t necessarily an insect infestation. They might just as easily be drone swarms.

        You know, if we’re taking the book of revelation seriously, at least…

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        Well, Artemis II can do a flyby of the Alien Space Nazi Moonbase on the dark side and that will get the meteorites going. I’m not sure how he’ll manage the locusts. Genetically modified grasshoppers?

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          They blew up a Starlink satellite a couple days ago; the debris will be reentering the atmosphere over the next couple days.

          The term “locust” refers to “insect plagues” in general rather than mutated grasshoppers in particular. There is a new, mutated COVID variant circulating in 25 states that was nicknamed “Cicada”.

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          Fun fact, there are only two continents without swarming locusts. Antarctica and North America.

          The Rocky Mountain Locust went extinct sometime around 1900, which was some 30 years after the largest swarm ever recorded for any species of locust.

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    The Antichrist checklist just keeps filling up. Good thing I don’t believe in that shit. Apparently the evangelicals don’t either.

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      He’s done so many things on that checklist it makes me start to wonder if maybe that shit was true after all.

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        So many people in history fit that bill. Funny thing is that there have been antiChrist since biblical times, as stated in 1st John 2:18, not that I expect hatemongers to teach that.

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    Good fucking grief. WTF do these people see in this guy that makes them want to suck up to him so badly? Hes a malignant narcissist sociopath piece of shit and is more closely related to the antichrist than anything else.

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      Trump: A malignant narcissist sociopath piece of shit more closely related to the antichrist than anything else.

      Christian God: A malignant narcissiat sociopath piece of shit more closely related to the antichrist than anything else.

      You can see where they got confused.

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      He promised to get rid of the brown people. And they were told to follow him. That’s it for a lot of them. Blindly following someone because their preacher says to is ingrained in a lot of evangelicals especially.

      But also a lot of them believe he was sent by God to kick-start the end times and trigger the Rapture. That’s why a lot of the politicians especially are behind him, and why Biden treated him with kid gloves. You’d be amazed how many statesmen in both the Republican and Democratic Party legit believe in all that ‘end times we go to Heaven and all the disgusting plebeians go to hell’ bullshit.

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        Plus we can say MERRY CHRISTMAS again, everyone!

        No one said that under Obama and Biden, if you remember. In fact, I remember it being explicitly forbidden, with lots of liberal tattletales just waiting to take down names and report xtians to the authorities so that they could be stripped of all their assets and thrown into prison, just for acknowledging the baby Jesus!

        It was very dark times for xtians. You have no idea the cross they bore, living as xtians in Murica under the Democrat (sic) Party!

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      I cannot wait for those inevitable crazy-assed news stories. His presidential funeral will bring out the craziest of the crazies. Someone will probably be killed for not showing the appropriate sympathy (probably me, who has already ordered a T-shirt with his quote about Robert Muller on it). Then, they will have to have police outside his compound as his followers await his second coming. It’s going to be prime TV, and the world will see how utterly crazy much of the US still is.

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        the world will see how utterly crazy much of the US still is

        the world is looking while the Us is gradually becoming more and more crazy. At this point, there isn’t much that can surprise us any more when it comes to the US

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          At this point, there isn’t much that can surprise us any more when it comes to the US

          USA: Hold my (watery) beer.

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              Oh absolutely.

              But members of the current administration do not strike me as craft beer enthusiasts.

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        Frog chocking on listerine voice

        “He may not appear alive but that’s actually a good thing because that gives you a chance to eat enough meats and ferments up to the point that you see the truth that he actually is alive.”

        leans in throws arm over his shoulder

        “I mean the bacteria are but let’s not get lost on the details. I saw a squirrel on the road earlier, you guys up for some heatless bbq?”

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      The application of a stake and garlic would be very appropriate, alongside with nailing the coffin shut and dumping it into the Marianas Trench.

      Trump is more demon than man, if the supernatural exists.

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      When he at some point dies, i am sure that some people will be waiting for him on the third day to come back

      Well, at least the ground will be soft from all the tributes. He’ll have a choice to make: rest in piss or scrabble back up through it, undead motherfucker.

      I’m actually hoping for the undead scenario, because of all his kids that will be so enraged about having to wait for the estate cash that they’ll just try to kill him again and again – but before they can, they have to fight off that wife of his wanting to slurp up the undead soul out of his rotting carcass first.

      That is absolutely a movie I’d watch. Or, the president can make my dreams come true, lol

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    If I were an Evangelical Christian, I would be screaming my lungs out that this is Antichrist territory.