I don't often agree with Rod Dreher (make that "never!" But never say "never"....), but today:Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 12, 2020
There's some large guy onstage at the DC rally named "Shofar So Great" (https://t.co/rB4DIPCf1r) claiming to be an Orthodox Jew who says his rabbi in Israel gave him permission to break Shabbat to support Donald Trump and blow the shofar at the Jericho March.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Lady in Women For Trump t-shirt came onstage to praise "Yeshua ha Mashiach" -- Jesus the Messiah -- and to sing the Star Spangled Banner. Crowd shouts, "USA! USA!" Now comes Eric Metaxas praising "Yeshua ha Mashiach." Says Eric, "'Hallelujah' is American for 'praise the Lord.'"
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Mike Lindell talking about all the prophetic visions and dreams he has had about Donald Trump. Then God arranged for him to meet Trump. What is so fascinating about this is how these believers think that all of this Trump stuff is directed by God.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Conservative Catholic friend texts: "One generation had its
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Rites of Spring, and we get...this...". Yeah. They had Stravinsky, we get a praise band.
Founder of Jericho March claims God poked him in the side and woke him up. "God said it's not over." Then God showed him a vision of the Jericho Marches. Then God introduced him to a woman who had the same vision. None of this, you understand, can be questioned. It's revealed.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Now on stage a shamanic Catholic priest, Fr. Bramlage, claiming to be exorcist, praying down heaven to deliver America from demons. These are real deliverance prayers. He is saying, in effect, that to oppose Trump & his re-election is Satanic. No, THIS is Satanic!
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
To be clear, I believe in the power of exorcism. That's why it infuriates me to see it deployed on behalf of Donald Trump's political ambitions (or any candidates). It's profaning what is sacred. It's using something holy to literally demonize those who don't side w/Trump.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
This Flynn speech is important. He said, "The Courts don't decide the election, we the people decide." But later: "The rule of law is at stake." In the same speech in which he declared mob rule, not the legal institutions ordained by the Constitution, determine election results.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Probably, but if Trump is right it's a movement of "thousands." They'll have dissipated by January 21.You watch: this movement is going to end up demanding that Gen. Flynn become the military dictator of America.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
We were closer to this kind of danger when Curtis LeMay was a general. "Seven Days in May" was more prophetic than anything Flynn has to say. "Dr. Strangelove" was more accurate.Flynn: Every time they attack Trump, they're attacking you. Total identification of the collective with the man, Trump. I hate facile comparisons, but think of what Rudolf Hess said at 1934 Nuremberg Party rally: “The Party is Hitler! But Hitler is Germany, as Germany is Hitler!” pic.twitter.com/ObyQTeCGjU
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
"We are the silent army of the Children of Light," Archbishop Vigano tells crowd. Fighting for Trump is a holy crusade, says the man who is the most potent enemy of Pope Francis. He's talking about the Deep State now.
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
Yeah, this is pretty much nuts. But the nuts have had their four years. They're done."God bless our President," Vigano prays. Again, he is an Italian citizen. He describes, in prayer, the pro-Trump people gathered as an "army" that serves "under Thy holy banner."
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 12, 2020
LIVE FEED: STOP THE STEAL DC pic.twitter.com/mZFi7IbPzV
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) December 12, 2020
I'm opposed to snake handling because it's cruel to snakes, however, if adults want to drink strychnine I am ambivalent as to whether or not they should be legally prevented from doing so.
ReplyDeleteThis isn't going to get better until the cabloid and other media are prevented from promoting fascism. It's rare that the inadequacy of the First Amendment as written is demonstrated on so many fronts all at once.