• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    7 天前

    When the MAGA Messiah was in exile during the Biden years, MAGA was actively operating Plan B - rebrand Trump as a bona-fide religious prophet - just in case he didn’t win the 2024 election. The press ignored it nearly entirely.

    Traitor General Michael Flynn operated a travelling roadshow called the Re-Awaken America Tour (wouldn’t that make it Woke?), a rotating slate of conservative and evangelical speakers. The constant thread through all of it was Trump’s literal DIVINITY.

    All of the MAGA All-Stars spoke at one time or another, including Trump himself, but Lara Trump, Eric’s wife, was a regular. In her speech, Lara claimed that she was in regular, DIRECT contact with God, and he TOLD her that he had personally appointed Trump to be his chosen emissary on Earth, to lead America into its Christian future. Trump never paid much attention to Lara before, but he was so pleased with her efforts on the tour, that he made her chairman of the RNC.

    Then he stole the presidency again, and the Prophet talk cooled down for a while. Now that things are heating up for him again, the religious talk is ramping up again. Some will back off if they think he’s doing God’s work. You don’t want interrupt God.

    When he’s finally out, expect them to make hard pivot to religion this time. It will partially to discourage prosection - “You can’t prosecute a man of God!” - but mostly it will be about money.

    A politician has a lot of regulations to deal with to collect money, but a religion has no rules. You can take as much money as you want, from any source in the world. There are literally no restrictions. Even better, there are no taxes, and no reporting of your revenues to anybody. It’s the perfect cover for a money launderer, which is Trump’s primary occupation.

    When he is out, and struggling to stave off prosecution from every direction, expect him to start screaming for the Christians to save him from legal martyrdom by atheist Liberals! And also expect that many of them will buy it.

    • tmyakal
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      7 天前

      I mean, George W also spoke directly to God and was told he was God’s emissary to on Earth, leading America into its Christian future, too.

      And just like with Bush, once Trump is out of office, they’ll find someone else that actually spoke to God for real this time, pinky-promise. It’s like the Reasonablists, just moving the goal posts every time they’re wrong.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        7 天前

        Yeah, but NOBODY bought it with Bush. Trump actually has the religious freaks believing it. What a bunch of weirdos, actually volunteering to be exploited losers. Pathetically cringe.

  • lmdnw@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    Easy way to dispel that notion. If he only had stood a few inches to his right