Trump End Times
Jesus and the Crystal Ball, huh? Televangelist Pat Robertson reported on The 700 Club that he had been told by God that President Trump will be reelected… and his reelection will bring about the start of the End Times. Okay, well, I don’t believe in the End Times but I have no doubt that something pretty much awful will happen if Trump is reelected.
I thought the End Times were brought about by the Anti-Christ and the Mark of the Beast on your forehead. Well, Orange Trump and his his MAGA baseball caps pretty well seem to fit that.
Robertson mumbled on, “without question, Trump is going to win the election,” but it will result in widespread civil unrest, during which there will be at least two attempts to assassinate the president.
There’s the comforting thought that if the End Times come if Trump’s reelected, it’ll be better than having Trump, right?
What do they call it when someone hears strange voices in their head?
1Prophecy, Steve, jus lik inna BIBLE!
Well, he was half right, anyway. Robertson is a Dominionist, the worst of the worst, who would bring on the end of the world to fulfill “prophecy.”
If it didn’t relate to religion, all those nutbags would be in psych wards and prisons.
2Given all the Republicans who were “told by God” that they should run for President and who sank without trace, I’m not worried. The assassination attempts sound promising, as long as they happen before Jan. 20.
Pat is 90. We’d be talking about dementia except that he’s been babbling nonsensical garbage for decades and for some reason it keeps getting into the news.
3Sorry. Not to offend anyone, but I call it hallucinations. I think he is a nutbag. He acts just like a cult leader. That’s just my opinion. Voices in my head are telling me that.
4a net worth of $140 million & he just sounds like any other cult leader…
5Pat should offer his predictions with a money back guarantee. Or at least agree to stop babbling if he’s wrong.
6Pat cedes credibility to the Jonestown kooks, the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project. Meanwhile his continued longevity is giving credence to the fact that he may be playing for the team on the dark side of hell. If there’s a hell and a Satan, the scary thought is that Pat’s final descent might give them the escape hole to flood the earth.
7Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist and not a hallucination, says an asteroid the size of a refrigerator will hit the earth on November 2. It could be the end-time for somebody. Is that close enough?
8Buttermilk Sky at #8: Maybe God got the date of the asteroid wrong.
9More proof that we live in a software simulation: the release date for the End Times module keeps getting pushed back.
10Him? mumblemumblemumblemumble
Get my drift?
11Buttermilk Sky at #8, is that asteroid the size of a refrigerator TODAY, or at the moment of impact?
Today would be better, as by the time it burned its way through Earths atmosphere, it would be the size of a small spool of thread.
12Not going to get a debate opponent for “Nut bag”. In the dictionary under “Nut Bag” there’s already an image of Gonna Bite It Pat.
Agree with whoever said he’s a Dominionist. The whole image of End Times as I read it, is going to snarl traffic in most major cities. A situation I detest. Let’s not do End Times just yet.
13Robertson is a fraud, which I learned back when he was just a struggling snake-oil salesman without enough money to hire a newscaster. He used the services of a food broker whose son worked with me and used to fill me in with all the 700 Club gossip.
One day the food broker told brother Pat that he couldn’t go on air, he had a raging headache. Brother Pat led him into his darkened office, knelt with him, prayed, put his hands on his head and told him, “There, you feel better now.”
The food broker said, “No, I quit.”
Regrettably, the 700 Club broke up his marriage. That was nearly 50 years ago.
Robertson is (or was before the dementia set in) fully aware of the damage he was doing to the people who fell into his clutches.
14Projection angers me. He knows full well that the well-armed and civil-war-bellicose Americans are all on the right. I do fully expect violence, and attempts on Biden’s life. Robertson, by keeping the idea in the public mind, is planting it in followers’ subconscious. The same followers that don’t feel safe to go to the sandwich shop without four guns and eight clips.
15charles phillips #12, large meteors don’t burn as much as you think. The trip through the atmosphere is too fast; only takes a few seconds. If it’s mostly ice, the heat heat break it up and reduce damage. If it’s mostly rock or iron, expect a big hole.
16Brad @ 15. I rather expect an attempt on Harris. My barometer is a cousin who was raised in a Bircher household. She is a good reflector of opinion in the murkiest regions of rightwing craziness.
Sheis not stupid.
She does believe that Harris far to the left of Sanders.
17Well, Robertson has hit on about the only half-way plausible case you can make for voting for Trump — vote for him and that will bring about the end of the world. This seems fairly plausible, and definitely way more plausible than any case you might make for Trump on the grounds that he has or will accomplish anything good on this earth..
The only flaw to this strategy, and presumably the reason you don’t see it used more widely in the Trump campaign, is that only a niche market among the electorate openly and consciously wants the world to end. Oh, nihilism is the unifying theme and just ending it all is the hidden motivator for anybody who would even consider voting for him, but most of them aren’t advanced enough to own that openly. Wanting the world to end is still something you mostly have to dog-whistle, even with this crowd.
18Talking to God=prayer
God talking back=psychosis
And false prophets suffer being thrown into the fire-guess that part was missed by the flock fleecing 700 Club blasphemer. Micah 3:11 and Matthew 7:19-23 should be the yardstick the minions of this cult consider when listening to this shaman.
19GLEN TOMKINS. Au contraire, the adherents of Calvary Chapel (which declares itself to be the fastest-growing evangelical church; it practically runs part of Idaho) cannot wait for Armageddon (or as most of them pronounce it, Ommageddin).
I know this from listening to their call-in radio program To Every Man an Answer.
People who have actually read the Bible tend to hesitate because the deal includes a thousand years of war, famine etc. which is hard to sell for a 4-year term, but surprising numbers of people (some of them in high places) think it is worth it.
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