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Originally posted by Magine Enigam:

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Can't debate the man with facts and don't like it that he destroys your idiotic bs links and made up "facts"

Poor old woman......


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There is something important that everyone needs to understand. Trump's Christian supporters understand it very well, innately.

This is the unspoken which should be said out loud: Fundamental Christians and Trump have an apocalypticism pact, and they are leveraging the country and the world. Trump has his reasons and the Christians have theirs. Somehow they mesh, probably because Trump is conning them and of course they want to be conned. Whatever the different reasons are, they are both sick. It's like a suicide pact for the nation.

It is zero-sum. The premise is that it's the final battle between good and evil - a Biblical Prophesy. Of course, it is essential that Trump paints evil for the True Believers, and most certainly something other than himself. And they buy it.

Trump uses lots of coded wording in his speeches. One he repeats often is "This is the Final Battle". Christians understand it to be referring to the Armageddon battle, mentioned one time in the Bible, in Revelations. Trump is making an allegory, not the actual site of the supposed final battle in the Bible, although that may be included. The battle Trump is referring to is his political and legal battle, and of course if he wins, he can fix it all, including foremost keeping himself out of jail.

He's painting himself the mighty warrior in the existential fight of good vs evil, and he is the chosen one, the only one who can win for the Christians.

You don't even have to imagine that. Just look at his words.

https://religiondispatches.org...apocalyptic-promise/

DON’T SLEEP ON TRUMP’S CPAC SPEECH CALLING FOR ‘THE FINAL BATTLE’: THIS WAS SOUTHERN STRATEGY AS APOCALYPTIC PROMISE


Trump's coded message in "the final battle":
https://www.google.com/search?...sclient=gws-wiz#ip=1

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Originally posted by Magine Enigam:
For the sake of mental health and the health of the nation - QUIT WATCHING FOX NEWS.

It's designed to upset you.

For the mental health and the health of the nation ........Quit watching CNN- MSNBC .......

If the truth and reality upsets you, oh well. Generally, it's a personal problem, but it's evident that it has become a national problem, perhaps international since you say you are from Canada. It's a problem because so many people choose alt-reality and denial, either to avoid the upset but most likely to protect self-identity tied to fantasy and lies and belief.

There's one thing for sure - Trump painting himself as good, with good intentions, and the belief that's true and reality says all that's needed to know about all of MAGA, Trumpism, and mostly the GOP, and the future they envision for the nation and world, and their distinction of good vs evil, right and wrong.

How about the Maddow blog for a dose of truth and reality?

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-m...al-battle-rcna133941

Why it matters that Trump keeps talking about the ‘Final Battle’
When Donald Trump tells his followers that the 2024 race is "the final battle," it's a phrase with deeper meaning for a specific group of voters.

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But what matters about the campaign commercial is the audio that plays while the Republican is seen walking:

“This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State. We will expel the war mongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists; we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

At first blush, this might not seem especially remarkable. Trump has already served one term in the White House, and he expects to win a second in the fall. As such, from his perspective, it stands to reason that the 2024 race will be his “final” fight for elected office.

But there’s a bit more to it than that. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump had a terrific piece along these lines a couple of months ago:

If your immediate point of reference for that [“final battle”] phrase wasn’t to the Book of Revelation’s depiction of the apocalypse, you are probably not a Trump supporter. (A 2012 poll from PRRI found that the religious group most likely to say that the end times as predicted in Revelation would occur during their lives was evangelicals.)

Noting the invocation at a Trump rally in Iowa in November, Bump highlighted the rhetoric from a conservative Baptist preacher, who insisted that “lies, corruption, and propaganda are driving civilization to ruins.”