Deranged Magat Syndrome
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There's at least a few things bothering me about this. First, it misrepresents "evangelical" Christianity o an audience of people who know nothing about Christianity to start with, who bring their preconceived notions about "evangelicals" to the table as they read an article written by a guy they give credibility to because he states that he's a Christian without noticing that while yes he's a Christian, he's a 3 years Catholic, knowing no more about "evangelical" Christians than a nonchristian. Second, from this he attempts to portray all "evangelicals" as Alex Jones types, cultists, who are worshiping Trump. Maybe a tiny few do. But it would be a tinier % than the tiny percent of "evangelicals" who go around thinking God "told them" something or sent some sort of prophetic vision to them. So this article misrepresents both protestant Christians as well as the reason Trump supporters support him by focusing on a few oddballs that most protestants roll their eyes at too.
The vast majority of Protestant Christians do not fit this man's depiction, and 99.999999% of Trump supporters do not worship Trump, or support him because of any religious view. I for one find the entire notion ridiculous.
But I will just speak for myself, and then tell you that the vast majority of Trump supporters are just like me. I do not "speak in tongues", i do not think Trump is a religious figure, I do not support Trump because God told me to. My religious views have absolutely nothing to do with it. I'm a 69 year old man who has spent his entire life exposed to Christians. None of them outside of one or two small denominations speak in "tongues" and it is extremely rare to run into anyone who believes God chose them to send messages. The only one I've run into in years actually was Dewey, who said that God told him to become a pastor and that it was ok to suck dicks. I will add by the way that the very same ones who are now mocking Christians as a bunch of cult worshiping self appoi Ted prophets were the same ones who told me to shut up and respect his silly religious views when I told him God had not told him anything and that he should get out of the ministry.
I support Trump because he took on the corrupt political class and exposed them. I support Trump because he accomplished more GOOD for this country than any president since Reagan. And I support him because he did all this in spite of the fact that the media, the democrat party, the rich donor groups, big tech, have attacked him every single day of his presidency, and done everything they could to get rid of him - and because the lemmings who make up the democrat base have taken part in it and supported it with a genuine religious cult like manner.
Which is another reason I support Trump. I have been watching the Left/democrat bunch for decades. I have watched their descent into mentally illness for more years than some of you have been alive. I can remember when the democrats were literally a political party. I have watched as the mental illness began setting in, I watched it overtake them, i have watched as their political views shifted, and I have watched as it turned into a religion. And, I have watched its base go from rational thinkers who simply disagreed with the right over policy issues to brainwashed cultists who will accept whatever their religious leaders (the democrat party) tells them to accept. And I have watched as they use the method of projecting to accuse their opponents of the very thing they themselves are guilty of.
For you see, it's not republicans, Christians, or Trump supporters who are motivated by religion. It's the exact other way around.
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@lufins-dad said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
This has gotten beyond ridiculous. I can’t believe how many people that I normally consider pretty reasonable (and at least somewhat intelligent) are getting sucked up into this...
That's because all Evangelicals are drooling fools.
Don't you know that?
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You prefer everyone look the other way and pretend this isn't happening.
But no, it's not trolling - it was a real question and the respondents treated it as such (even listed some examples from lower levels of government that I wasn't aware of, and Ludendorff which is interesting)
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@jon-nyc said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
You prefer everyone look the other way and pretend this isn't happening.
But no, it's not trolling - it was a real question and the respondents treated it as such (even listed some examples from lower levels of government that I wasn't aware of, and Ludendorf which is interesting)
I’m sure there are several examples of people over the decades but most don’t have time to do it. Also his big role with Trump was how many months a whopping 3??
And yes he is completely whacked out. Worse than Giuliani.
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@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
Is there a reason why this is self-evidently a full blown crank conspiracy theory?
Obama, the FBI, and the CEO of Overstock.com arranged that Hillary take an 18MM bribe so that they could hold it over her head for the express purpose of making sure she didn't get rid of Obamacare?
DON’T let them eat cake.
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A quick google search, here are the top 10 Obama.
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I see Horace is teetering on the brink....
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
I see Horace is teetering on the brink....
I hope someday to have the courage to never take a side and sneer at everything just like you, phibes.
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@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
The rest seems an over-specification of what the tweet actually said.
From the tweet thread:
The bribe, which she accepted, was then going to be used by members of the Obama administration against Hillary after she was elected. As it was later explained to him, “President Obama has his people across the federal bureaucracy at this point, but especially at the Department of Justice. Hillary Clinton is going to be President for 8 years and nothing is going to change that, but think of there being a Bunsen burner within the DOJ. That evidence about the [2] bribes you were a part of gathering is going to be sitting on the Bunsen burner. The hand sitting on the burner is going to be one of Barack Obama’s people.
If Hillary is a “good girl” and defends Obamacare, that flame stays low. If she’s a “bad girl” and thinks for herself, that flame is going to get turned up high.
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@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
I see Horace is teetering on the brink....
I hope someday to have the courage to never take a side and sneer at everything just like you, phibes.
Yeah, you only sneer at folks who quote history or travel. It's important to take a stand when you finally find something to believe in, even it is Donald Trump.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@jon-nyc said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
...and Ludendorff which is interesting
I was curious about this so I looked it up.
Ludendorff lost an election against Hinderburg, his former commander, in which he ran as a Nazi. He was shunned by Hitler and founded the Tannenbergbund.
The Tannenbergbund soon developed as largely a circle of former officers who had served under Ludendorff in World War I.[4] In terms of ideology the Bund largely concentrated on those whom it opposed, attacking Freemasons, Jews, communists and Jesuits and accusing them of conspiracy.[5] Such people were lumped in together as "die überstaatlichen Mächte" or "the powers above the state".[6] The Bund became a prolific producer of conspiracy literature, although they were openly rejected by the growing Nazi movement, for whom some of the Bund's more wild ideas were even too fancifully conspiratorial.[7] Central also to their ideas was an occultist vision inspired by the Thule Society to which Ludendorff had been introduced by his wife. As such, the Bund presented history as a struggle between the Nordic hero and the three-way alliance of the Jew, Catholic and Freemason.[8] As a consequence, members of the Bund were expected to abandon Christianity and turn to the old Nordic gods.[9]
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Ludendorff went on to have a starring role in the well known Docu-drama Wonder Woman, so there's hope for Donald Trump, yet.
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@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
I see Horace is teetering on the brink....
I hope someday to have the courage to never take a side and sneer at everything just like you, phibes.
Yeah, you only sneer at folks who quote history or travel. It's important to take a stand when you finally find something to believe in, even it is Donald Trump.
If I think something, there's generally a specific reason that I'm willing to defend specifically.
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@jon-nyc said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
The rest seems an over-specification of what the tweet actually said.
From the tweet thread:
The bribe, which she accepted, was then going to be used by members of the Obama administration against Hillary after she was elected. As it was later explained to him, “President Obama has his people across the federal bureaucracy at this point, but especially at the Department of Justice. Hillary Clinton is going to be President for 8 years and nothing is going to change that, but think of there being a Bunsen burner within the DOJ. That evidence about the [2] bribes you were a part of gathering is going to be sitting on the Bunsen burner. The hand sitting on the burner is going to be one of Barack Obama’s people.
If Hillary is a “good girl” and defends Obamacare, that flame stays low. If she’s a “bad girl” and thinks for herself, that flame is going to get turned up high.
Ok. But I know how effective the weaponization of "conspiracy crank" is, so I like to think twice every time it's thrown out by people who have an obvious political axe to grind, as the original tweeter does. Or, a personal axe to grind, like Phibes, because I disrespected the practice of quoting history, or believing that travel is a profound life accomplishment.
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@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:
I see Horace is teetering on the brink....
I hope someday to have the courage to never take a side and sneer at everything just like you, phibes.
Yeah, you only sneer at folks who quote history or travel. It's important to take a stand when you finally find something to believe in, even it is Donald Trump.
If I think something, there's generally a specific reason that I'm willing to defend specifically.
And if you don't like or understand something, you sneer?
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
