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Trump is like Jim Jones telling folks to come to church in mass (Original Post) still_one May 2020 OP
Yep . . Iliyah May 2020 #1
My husband made that same comparison just this afternoon MustLoveBeagles May 2020 #2
Great minds think alike still_one May 2020 #7
He's too chickenshit to go himself. C_U_L8R May 2020 #3
And the communion wine is Kool-Aid. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #4
+++ still_one May 2020 #6
Open the churches or we will cut off Fed funding... MerryBlooms May 2020 #5
Call me crazy, but I think Trump is getting off on people dying. Girard442 May 2020 #8
I think he gets off on the power that can make that happen. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2020 #9
I had the same thought earlier today. Maybe he knows he's not getting 42bambi May 2020 #11
Trump: Kool-aid is for amateurs. tanyev May 2020 #10
Trump is like bin Laben or al-Awlaki encouraging suicide bombers to die and kill for the faith. RockRaven May 2020 #12
Jones cult killed themselves. Trumps cult wants to kill YOU. Runningdawg May 2020 #13
The problem is they won't drink the poison cool-aide and spare innocents harm. Blue_true May 2020 #14

MustLoveBeagles

(11,563 posts)
2. My husband made that same comparison just this afternoon
Fri May 22, 2020, 09:34 PM
May 2020

Who knows maybe there'll be a run on orange Kool Aide.

Girard442

(6,059 posts)
8. Call me crazy, but I think Trump is getting off on people dying.
Fri May 22, 2020, 09:55 PM
May 2020

Especially if they die doing something he told them to do.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,280 posts)
9. I think he gets off on the power that can make that happen.
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:01 PM
May 2020

Whether or not people actually die is less important than the power he has over them - to him, people are no more significant or real than those little green plastic army men kids used to play with.

42bambi

(1,753 posts)
11. I had the same thought earlier today. Maybe he knows he's not getting
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:02 PM
May 2020

reelected so why not get revenge on everyone ... they're not voting for him and in his sick mind, well, if you're not going to vote for me - who needs you!

RockRaven

(14,784 posts)
12. Trump is like bin Laben or al-Awlaki encouraging suicide bombers to die and kill for the faith.
Fri May 22, 2020, 10:08 PM
May 2020

Aside from maybe abortion that is the single biggest moral bugaboo right wing Christians in the US have been obsessed with or the last quarter century. But suddenly not if they are the ones doing it (also like abortion, fwiw).

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
14. The problem is they won't drink the poison cool-aide and spare innocents harm.
Sat May 23, 2020, 12:14 AM
May 2020

They will go to church, get infected and then infect people who had nothing to do with mass gatherings against medical advice.

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