Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
No. of Recommendations: 2
So says Trump.
Trump’s argument of electoral inevitability adds an ally: Godhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/28...Trump wants to be president, yes, but he wants people to view him as victorious and popular perhaps just as much. This year, a lot of his rhetoric about voting hinges on this idea, that he is the true choice of the people and deeply popular — and, therefore, that any loss would necessarily be a function not of vote-counting but vote manipulation.
“Our primary focus is not to get out the vote,” he said. “It’s to make sure they don’t cheat, because we have all the votes you need.”Says the dope who never won the popular vote.
“Is there a reason you think you were spared?” McGraw asked.
“I mean, the only thing I can think is that God loves our country,” Trump replied. “And he thinks we’re going to bring our country back. He wants to bring it back.”
“You believe God’s hand was in this that day?” McGraw asked a bit later in the discussion.
“I believe so, yeah, I do,” Trump replied.
“And you talk about the country; you believe you have more to do,” McGraw followed up. “You weren’t done. You were spared for a reason.”
“Well,” Trump said, “God believes that.”
But his explicit pronouncement that God believes Trump needed to live to “bring our country back”? This is an unusual invocation of divine intent.
(It is also one that, for an outside observer, raises a correlated question: Well, why did firefighter Corey Comperatore, struck by one of the bullets, have to die? This was unaddressed by McGraw or Trump.)
No. of Recommendations: 3
So says Trump.
There's got to be some good joke in there about claiming God in the same way he claimed Swifties. I'm just not finding it this morning.
No. of Recommendations: 7
So his dementia is progressing. He's now having hallucinations about something that almost certainly doesn't exist (i.e. a deity).
As for "bringing our country back", we're already back. We've -mostly- recovered from the previous administration. Economy is firing on all cylinders, unemployment is low, alliances are strong once again, etc, etc. It's probably the best outcome we could expect under the global circumstances. "Can I have some more, please?"
No. of Recommendations: 1
So his dementia is progressing. He's now having hallucinations about something that almost certainly doesn't exist (i.e. a deity).
Oh, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Trump is utterly cynical in his phony 'religious' beliefs. Like everything that sociopath does, it is all about manipulation and grifting...getting what he wants.
What kind of fool really believes that Trump is a 'Godly' man? Plenty of those fools out there apparently.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Yeah, it's just another con for the convict. Playing the xian nationalist and evangelical rubes.
Just taking the opportunity to remind everyone that he also likely has dementia. (Again, I'm not a professional. I just recognize some of the signs from when 1poormom had it. Though mom's delusions weren't religious in nature. Mostly sounds that weren't there, people rummaging her room that weren't there, etc.)
No. of Recommendations: 7
What kind of fool really believes that Trump is a 'Godly' man? Plenty of those fools out there apparently.
Actual number, who knows. Not many.
Most 'Christians' aren't actually 'Godly' either.
Participation in church is social and/or transactional for most of 'them.'
Trump is a tool to them; a means to achieve more power at all .gov levels to push their bigoted social goals. He makes it easier for them to express and promote misogyny, bigotry, racism, homophobia.
"He's not perfect. None of us are," makes it allll okay.
