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The Velveteen Ocelot

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9. I think he gets off on the power that can make that happen.

Reply to Girard442 (Reply #8)

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.

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Trump is like Jim Jones telling folks to come to church in mass [View all] 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