Trump is starting to sound like a TV Evangelical

[leftyladyfrommo]

preacher. I was just listening to bits of his rally riff. He sounds like the scammer preachers on Sunday morning


Good old Elmer Gantry Trump. There's a sucker born every second.

[malaise]

1. Looks like Fuckabee (Senior)

is working overtime?

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Could be giving him lessons in how to manipulated

his base.

Those people have listened to those preachers all of their lives. They just automatically go into religious mode when they hear that preacher rhythm. It's kind of like tuning into delta waves the minute you hear certain music.

Brain washing at it's finest.

[bluestarone]

5. THIS

SO TRUE!

[malaise]

16. Yep

The good news is that he's a really bad actor and the vast majority of Americans rejecthis shit.
Even his shrinking base is seeing through his act. Just wait until they turn on him and it won't be long.

[Achilleaze]

33. "must obey. must obey. must obey." - Dirty Donny*s Devotees (R)

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[BigmanPigman]

2. When I saw a clip of him saying,

"They take the beautiful newborn baby from its mother and then they murder it" . That was 100% TV religious nutjob-speak.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. There's a certain cadence to that kind of preaching.

People just go into mass hysteria.

[katmondoo]

7. He sounds like Jim Jones

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. Jim Jones had weird hair. Too.

Some of his followers knew they were in big trouble but they didn't know how to get out. It gets tricky when the guards are carrying AK47s.

I think some of Trump's followers just don't know how to get out either.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Next he will start healing the sick and the lame

A modern day Oral Roberts.

[Totally Tunsie]

9. "Physician, heal thyself"!

[lunatica]

8. It's a side effect of thinking of himself as a god

The Evangelical preachers all sound alike. It’s like a nervous tick.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I think most of those guys know at least on some level

that they are huge frauds. But when members of your congregation keep telling you how special you are, and how you are blessed by God and all that weird kind of stuff you begin to believe you are God's voice on earth.

That is pretty powerful stuff. Even some very practical people get sucked in.

[lunatica]

20. It sure is one of the pitfalls of leadership

that many flunk for the reasons you describe. Especially when it comes to religion.

From what people who know him have said, he has an almost crippling need to be loved, which is part of being a narcissist. So he’s created a base who are mindless in their slavish adoration of him which finally fills that need, though it needs to be constant, never ending, bottomless for him. He has to go back time and again to get his fix. He’s addicted to his base, yet it’s never enough. If they desert him he will become vindictive against them. He’ll punish them with real venom.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. I'd pay good money to see him punish his base.

😆

[lunasun]

11. More demagogue to me but both preacher and demagogue can be firebrands.Despicable display either way

[GulfCoast66]

13. I think originally he saw them as nothing but rubes.

But like ancient kings of old who convinced themselves they were gods, trump, as all pathological narcissists do has begun to actually believe what he says and now believes he is favored by god.

He is old and I can’t believe he is intellectually curious enough to work out a personal philosophy, like many freethinkers have, that can discount a heaven and hell.

So as he, like all of us, looks at his coming death, he has latched onto the most sophomoric of all philosophies. That doing what god want will win him a place in heaven. He would not, by any means, be the first. History is full of them.

I’m not a psychiatrist but I have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express! I am a freethinker who is familiar with this kind of thinking with older relatives that as they approach death work our crazy ideas about getting to heaven.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I had a neighbor (I am in Missouri, ) who started

Buying into all that heaven and hell stuff. She had just barely graduated from high school. She was dyslexic. Her husband couldn't read it write either. But they were nice people and she was a good friend.

I remember her saying that she wanted to get into heaven and she would believe anything that would get her there.

I think she thought of heaven as paradise- whatever that meant to her. Angel choirs and roads made if gold. It's different for everyone.

[GulfCoast66]

17. It was actually lyrics in a song in Jr. High that got me questioning.

Till then I was on the road to being a good Southern Baptist.

‘Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens’!

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. Someone I worked with was wondering what

people do in heaven. She was worried that there wouldn't be any malls and she wouldn't be able to shop.

[GulfCoast66]

22. Tell me you forgot the sarcasm thingy?

Please!

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. Nope. That's the truth. She was sort of kidding.

Mortgage banking isn't really full of deep thinkers

[The Genealogist]

27. Streets paved with gold...

tacky looking, and you know that's going to be slippery, what with Heaven being in the clouds and all that moisture.

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. That's funny.

Where did that stuff about streets paved with gold come from,,?

I know the slaves had visions of paradise that they sang about in their songs. That makes sense. Their lives were so awful that they dreamed of a better life in heaven.

I don't think Jews really believe in that sort if heaven. I think they just believe in sleep until the coming of the messiah.

Revelation has a bunch of weird stuff about heaven and angels. But streets paved with gold I don't remember.

[Maru Kitteh]

32. I believe his narcissism is too perfect to really believe in any god/s. It requires

an acceptance of the idea that there is an entity more important than himself.

I'm thinking it's more likely he's convinced himself that Ronnie Jackson is the most brilliant MD who ever walked the planet and that he will in fact live to be 200 - owing of course to his "perfect genes" and money.

But he sure does know how to play the suckers. He might have made a genuinely lucrative living as a peddler of religion if only he wasn't so very lazy.

[spanone]

15. Yep...he's a flim-flam man with nukes

actually he's an evil dangerous fuck of a person.

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. Someone I saw recently said he was capable of

doing horrible things

So are a lot of religious fanatics.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. Since you brought up Elmer Gantry . . . . .

[Initech]

19. Well his spiritual advisor is Paula White, who is an evangelical TV preacher.

One con artist to another...

[watoos]

26. More like a carnival barker

Or snake oil salesman

[democratisphere]

28. Con-artists of religion and politics.

One in the same.

[3catwoman3]

30. 60 years ago, when I was only 8, I had already...

...figured out that TV preachers were scuz bags.

[dlk]

31. Whether it's Religion or Real Estate, a Snake Oil Salesmen is Still a Snake Oil Salesman

They are one and the same.