There is no low they won’t go has been my mantra for quite some time. The latest demonstration of that axiom is Marjorie Taylor Greene, fresh from being shouted down by counter-protesters in New York, comparing Trump to Jesus Christ.
“It’s kind of a Jesus Christ thing. He is saying, ‘I’m absorbing all this pain from all around from everywhere so you don’t have to,’ ” says the source. Describing the message Trump hopes to send his supporters, the source says: “ ‘If they can do this to me they can do this to you,’ and that’s a powerful message,” says a source close to Trump’s legal team quoted in Rolling Stone.
Jim Morrison said, “Angels fight, angels cry, angels dance and angels die.” Yes, but do they laugh? Because they’ve got to be howling at this one. They and any other celestial intelligences who might be keeping an eye on this effed up planet.
Yeah, I remember the bit in the bible where Jesus cheated on his wife with a porn star and then paid her hush money which he failed to declare. They’re like TWINS. It’s uncanny.
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) April 4, 2023
Not let me share another place where Trump and Jesus differ. Jesus never sought out attention so that he could grift. Trump does. Trump could have stayed at home and been arraigned. He didn’t want to.
A law enforcement official tells Rolling Stone that the former president was offered a chance to surrender quietly and be arraigned over Zoom. Instead, Trump opted for a midday, high-profile booking at the Manhattan courthouse, the official says.
“He wanted a perp walk; he wanted daylight hours,” says the law enforcement official, who’s involved in aspects of the security planning. “He wants to get out of the vehicle and walk up the stairs. This is a nightmare for Secret Service, but they can only strongly suggest — not order — that Trump enter through the secure tunnels. Trump wants to greet the crowd. This should be a surprise to no one — especially not his detail.”
Secret Service had argued in favor of holding the proceedings outside of court business hours, at night with minimal cameras and less risk. But Trump, a source close to his legal team says, wants to create the type of scene that he believes will galvanize his supporters.
This is all about money. Nothing else but money and attention interest Trump. They never have. He wants the spotlight and the cash, period. Which is why Judge Merchan and Alvin Bragg denying him the spotlight he craves is such a blow to both his ego and his plans.
And what about the centerpiece to all this, the goal, the mugshot which is fundraising rocket fuel?
The source says that Trump’s mug shot will be anything but ordinary, owing to the Secret Service team surrounding him at all times. “We may have a group mugshot,” the official says. “I wish I was joking, I’m not.”
Within Trumpworld, that image is far from a cause for concern. “What a great cartoon,” scoffs the source close to Trump’s legal team. “They have to be close to him, so what? Trump’s mug shot will be the former president surrounded by 12 guys in suits with guns wearing sunglasses?”
“If they can do this to me, they can do it to you”.
You mean indict me if I break the law?
I’m willing to take that risk.
Jesus rode into town on an ass
The ass rode into town in a jet plane
It’s funny how anyone can SAY anything in America and it’s given gravitas. My dog, God spelled backwards, is kind, sweet, shares her toys, and only eats what she needs. She’s closer to Jesus’s reported teachings than a child killing, malignant narcissist, who has never repented for anything. He and these bible toting assholes, have as much in common with Jesus’s teachings, as they do with the habits of a pair of scuttling claws crawling across the ocean bottom. Hey, I can carry a physics book around, but does that mean I can explain gravity? Nope.
If you ever needed proof xtianity is the devil’s work, this is it.
The faux Christianity espoused by the “fundamentalist” preachers is a corrupted version of the faith. I note that recently the Episcopal Church of America authorized a payment of reparations for the part played by its predecessor in American slavery. To me that shows that not all of them are rotten.
Get on your way back machine and watch the 1960 movie “Elmer Gantry”, in which Burt Lancaster plays the title character, a traveling salesman who latches onto a well-meaning lady traveling revivalist and takes her tent show to the nth level, with disastrous results for the lady…
Or else, read the original novel, by Sinclair Lewis.