Tell the mob that sings your song that they are fools and they are wrong They are a curse, they should disperse
The one thing I did not anticipate about the post-Trump era is the extent to which his followers would embrace the persecution/martyr narrative.
I really thought the evangelical and fundamentalist communities that support Trump would eventually drop the “Trump is God’s chosen candidate, the warrior who will save a fallen world” line of thought, there were just too many holes in the story. If God loved Trump so much, why did he send a plague to help him lose the election? If Joe Biden won out over God, does that mean that God is weaker than Joe Biden? It all comes down to:
If God wanted Trump to win, why did Biden win?
But I did NOT expect what came next, with Trump going full Jesus Christ Superstar if Jesus were a fat aging con man. I was actually listening to Superstar a few weeks ago and all the elements are there, the anti-establishment cult leader with an ex-hooker bed mate that has insane fanatical followers — and they all piss off the government so they persecute him to shut him up. I just can’t figure out whether Judas is Pence or Bill Barr. Now we all have to watch Trump play this out until the reality show surprise ending next November when the viewers all get to vote on whether to send him to jail or turn the government over to him.
It’s depressing, then I remember how Superstar ends and I feel a little better.
Yeah, crucify him, see what happens. I support that. I’m sure that he would self-resurrect. He’s the Trumpster. He can do anything! Film the damm thing, even. What could possible go wrong?
Fuck no. Are you going to say that one of them is pro-choice as a gotcha? I’ll ask how they’ve voted lately in response if that is where you are going.
What? No, I was going for the exact opposite: I was replying to a claim that a lot of people support Trump because he “said once, JUST ONCE, that he opposed abortion” and, well, That’s All Some Of Them Need — and, well, I think they wanted more, and got more, than that.
Yep, you are correct that he did appoint a lot of anti-abortion assholes. But Trump himself doesn’t give a shit. I’m guessing he paid for them on his own, multiple times. As Jesus himself would’ve done.
And that works for supporting him in 2016, after he won the nomination. But once he got the justices in place, there would be no reason to support him in 2020, and especially not 2024 when they could try to get a different Republican in—one who has broader appeal.
But that makes nearwildheaven’s post even head-scratch-ier; if you’re right, then it makes remarkably little sense to say that “a lot of people support Trump, no matter what else happens, and it’s this: He said once, JUST ONCE, that he opposed abortion. That’s all some of them need.”
Couldn’t — as you say — “a different Republican” ably say stuff at least once, just once? As well as, y’know, do other stuff?
They’re just following a long tradition of religious people doing whatever they think is best on the geopolitical stage and using their faith to justify it after the fact. I’m pretty sure Jesus never said, “Get a bunch of people together, march through Europe slaughtering Jews as you go, then kill all the Muslims in Jerusalem in my name” yet the Crusades were so popular they got more sequels than a Marvel movie.
I think they served purpose for the nations involved in that they got to send all of the violent assholes and troublemakers away to go cause trouble and kill people elsewhere.
I’m about 95% sure that artist and social media persona are a parody, but the MAGA-folk are too dim to realize it. The “artist” is Mike Oxmaul (just say it out loud a couple of times.) Looking through his Twitter/X history, my favorite is the instructions for keeping the phone company from tracking you by removing your SIM card and cutting it in two.