Marjorie Taylor Greene #wingnut #dunning-kruger #pratt

Marjorie Taylor Greene #wingnut #dunning-kruger #pratt theguardian.com

[Article Title: "Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Trump to Jesus at Las Vegas rally"]

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“The Democrats and the fake news media want to constantly talk about ‘President Trump is a convicted felon’,” she told a crowd that waited in soaring early-summer temperatures. “Well, you want to know something? The man that I worship is also a convicted felon. And he was murdered on a Roman cross.”
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It is not the first time Greene has drawn parallels between Trump and Christ – whom Christians consider to be the messiah and son of God – as well as other historical martyr figures.
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“Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today. Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government,” she told the Right Side Broadcast Network.

“There have been many people throughout history that have been arrested and persecuted by radical, corrupt governments … I just can’t believe it’s happening, but I’ll always support him. He’s done nothing wrong.”
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Maybe I should include here a few other quotes from the same article, but that aren't from Greene:

In some parts of the political ecosphere, Greene’s comparison did not go over well.
“Did Jesus pay off a pornstar and cover it up,” read one comment on X left below a clip of Greene’s remarks on Sunday.
California’s Democratic congressman Adam Schiff sarcastically added: “Definitely not a cult.”

At this point, RWNJs would be more than willing to rebel against the Jesus they claim to worship if He so much leads their precious Pig Vomit into the Gehenna at Judgment Day.

1- Thou shalt have no other gods before me

…meanwhile, President Biden knows about the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Oh, does he of all people know about such. Now, considering the first of the Big 10: do you, Margarine?

Wrong answer.

It can’t be both, despite your oleaginating in hoping you can butter up what you consider to be superior to the second component of that Trinity, OP.

So who is that second component, Marjiepoos…?!

Ah, the Galileo Fallacy.
They also arrested Al Capone.

Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government

Cue another round of Gab accusing her of being Zionist Controlled Opposition…

Doesn’t the Bible say something about the Antichrist who will deceive many into following them rather than Jesus?

Only if MTG and co. read the Bible…

“The Democrats and the fake news media want to constantly talk about ‘President Trump is a convicted felon’,” she told a crowd that waited in soaring early-summer temperatures. “Well, you want to know something? The man that I worship is also a convicted felon. And he was murdered on a Roman cross.”

The thing I don’t get is what’s the point of calling the media “the fake news media” in that context? It kinda undermines her own point, doesn’t it? If Trump being a convicted felon is “fake news” then what are you doing drawing parallels between him and any other convicted felon?

If it looks like a cult, talks like a cult, brainwashes like a cult, reveres a single conman as a god like a cult, is fanatical like a cult…

@Timjer #199525
Provided Trump doesn't do too much damage first, I'm looking forward to about 15 years from now when most people see Trumpism as a dangerous cult.

Provided Trump doesn't do too much damage first

That’s the question, isn’t it? Can the USA as it exists currently even survive another 4 years of Trumpism? Can the UN as a whole?

“Trump is joining some of the most incredible people in history being arrested today. Nelson Mandela was arrested, served time in prison. Jesus was arrested and murdered by the Roman government,” she told the Right Side Broadcast Network.

If the Jesus figure we know from the New Testament today even existed, he was SUPPOSED to die and resurrect!

And Trump is far more similar to Nelson Mandela’s enemies, the South African Apartheid Regime, that had him arrested and imprisoned.

Lots of people have been arrested. O.J. Simpson, for example.

It seems like they say this stuff just so they can deny it.

I think this is also where Trump flat out said to the crowd - in a rambling tangent about people voicing medical concerns about having a rally in a heatwave - “I don’t care about you I just want your vote” and then whined about how mean everyone’s going to be to him for saying that.

At this point forget shooting someone in the middle of 5th avenue, he could shoot someone in the front row of his own rally and not lose the vote of the person he shot.

@Passerby #199548

a rambling tangent about people voicing medical concerns about having a rally in a heatwave - “I don’t care about you I just want your vote” and then whined about how mean everyone’s going to be to him for saying that.

You know, shit like this makes me suspect we aren’t living in reality anymore… Rather, we’re living in a parody of our actual reality.

“The Democrats and the fake news media want to constantly talk about ‘President Trump is a convicted felon’,”

This Trump, he’s the one who gives every one of his opponents a derogatory nickname and uses it constantly, right?
Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary, like that?
At least his status as a convicted felon is unequivocable. What is the complaint you’re making? That the bully can’t take the truth?

Fuck him.

@Timjer #199550

Humans have been crazy for quite some time, after all there’s ALOT of awful things people have done in the past and present that is hard to understand much less believed.

@Starlight #199521

Doesn’t the Bible say something about the Antichrist who will deceive many into following them rather than Jesus?

You’re not the only one noticing that…

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

(Thanks for giving me an excuse to post that again lol)

I don’t think that there’s much support for a full-on Imperial cult in the USA, to put it mildly.

<@Dr.Weird> #199570

Thanks for that link, it's bollocks to me (and I'm familiar with a number of other cult interpretations of the same verses), and the claims in the verses are stereotypical, but indeed, I already said myself that there are as much if not more reasons for ultrafundamentalists to believe that he could be antichrist, if they're in a denomination with an antichrist doctrine... Also, when we see all that QAnon for mystics disinformation, it's very ironic, considering how many Christians are superstitious with the fear of esotericism...

"Dr. Salazar" too, an inspiration for Hannibal Lecter :)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/trump-rally-speech-hannibal-lecter

LOCK HIM UP!

Oh and Margarine, if you actually read the Gospels, Jesus was not actually convicted but handed over to the crowd by Pontius Pilate, who then infamously washed his hands. But I can tell you about a few more convicted felons: Manson, Gacy, Dahmer... Your hero is in good company.

@Titania #199598

Pontius Pilate, who then infamously washed his hands.

And sealed his fate. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name!

(excuse me, I just love that song, lol)

@TheKingOfRhye #199606

So do I, it’s clever, once I realized the Devil was really just a fantasy character.

@Passerby #199548

he could shoot someone in the front row of his own rally and not lose the vote of the person he shot

They'd be all "I worship his divine shadow..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVnx6CuBCKw