This is my hope — that whatever’s got him disappearing for a few days at the end of every month is genuinely serious, and he’s now confronted with the looming prospect of death for the first time ever. Trump is, if you hadn’t noticed, pretty fucking stupid, and incapable of restraining himself from free-association babbling about whatever thought is pressing on him at the moment, so I’m praying that this newfound musing on mortality means he’s getting worrisome news from his (actual) doctors.
He identifies as “non-denominational.”
More recently (2020), he’s said that. Previously, he’d indicated that he was Presbyterian. My suspicion is, again, that he said that, not because of any great change in his faith, but to be more appealing to conservative Christians in the 2020 election, as the Presbyterian Church is pretty liberal, particularly compared to the Baptists and other Evangelical and Fundamentalist denominations.
This, I can totally see. He probably never thought much about the afterlife, because he’s not religious, and because he’s fixated on his own awesomeness. Now, suddenly, he’s (maybe?) faced with “how can someone as wonderful and perfect as me be dying?”, and it’s giving him cognitive dissonance.
This would be the logical conclusion. But I worry it’s just a setup for some bullshit story where he’s going to return from his propaganda journey to Israel and say that he had a profound religious experience—perhaps even a vision of the risen Christ. And what did Christ tell him? That he can only get to heaven by taking back this country from the wokes and the gays and the transislamofascists. That anyone who opposes him in his crusade is a terrorist. And what’s more, anyone who does not wholly commit themselves to the same task is nit a true Christian, and thus bound for hell.
He sounds an awful lot like Barney Stinson.
That would make sense, given that predestination is — or was, last time I looked — one of the core tenets of Calvinism/Presbyterianism (correction welcomed from anyone more conversant). And he is obviously predestined for a very high position in the Kingdom.
I’d be surprised if he actively chose Presbyterianism – and if he did, I’d be even more surprised that that was the reason why. He was a Presbyterian because his parents (particularly his mom) were, and that’s where he was taken to church as a kid.
I bet if you asked him what a Presbyterian is now, he’d tell you he doesn’t mind them getting married as long as both chicks are hot.
I don’t think he’s capable of making any kind of analytical decision: he just goes with his very good brain gut. My point, insofar as I had one, was that predestination fits in with his concept of his place in the Universe.
A little closer to topic, I keep hearing this dialog in my head:
Him: What, do you expect me to change?
Me: No, Mr. Trump, I expect you to die!
Mirabile dictu, when it happens.
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I…what…no, don’t tell me. I don’t want to know.
It’s part of the JD Vance hot air balloon meme.
And this is why I can never quit the Dope.
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While we’re waiting around, perhaps it would be amusing to speculate what DEATH will say to the CFSG when he finally nabs him. Here’s my suggestion:
“I’M HERE BY POPULAR DEMAND”
Still screwed up. I tried to make small caps but Discourse isn’t recognizing the formatting, plus the markup window has disappeared so I can’t even proofread what I typed. Oh well, my apologies!
It requires a Discourse plugin that I don’t believe this site has.
Come on discourse… let me post
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