From: slider@anashram.com

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) compared former President Donald Trump to
the cult leader Jim Jones, telling CNN’s Brian Stelter that “there is no question that you could compare the two men as “merchants of deceit.” In
an interview on Reliable Sources Sunday, Speier, who was shot five times
and left for dead during the Jonestown massacre, said Republican
supporters of the former president were displaying “cult-like behavior.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2021/08/01/congresswoman-shot-at-jonestown-compares-donald-trump-to-cult-leader-jim-jones/

“You look at Donald Trump, a charismatic leader, who was able to continue
to talk in terms that appealed to those who were disaffected,
disillusioned and who were looking for something, much like those who
became part of Jim Jones’ congregation, the Peoples Temple,” Speier said. “They were lost souls, and the only difference between Jim Jones and
Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media. So all these
people can find themselves in ways that they couldn’t find themselves before.”

In November 1978, Speier was an aide to Rep. Leo Ryan, traveling with the congressman to Guyana on a fact-finding trip to visit Jonestown, where
hundreds of followers of Jones were living in a jungle settlement.

As Ryan and others prepared to leave at an airstrip they were shot by
gunmen associated with Jones’ cult, the People’s Temple. Ryan and four others were killed, and Speier was left for dead but survived.

Later, Jones is believed to have ordered his followers to drink
cyanide-laced punch, and more than 900 people died, including Jones.

On CNN, Speier said Jones, like Trump, “made people not look at facts, not think independently, and sowed a story for them that was destructive.”

Speier said Trump’s influence extends to Congress, where the former president’s supporters seem unwilling or unable to accept the truth of the 2020 election. “The big lie has now been embraced by the majority of
members on the Republican side in the House of Representatives,” she said. “They are now paralyzed to speak truth. They know that the election was
not stolen. They know that it was held properly. They know that there was
not massive fraud, and yet they will continue to mouth those words because their leader, Donald Trump, wants to hear them.”

### - this made me laff because it's sooo damn... accurate??

coz yes folks all ya's NOW need, apparently heh... is an expensive-looking trumpy-membership card (only $35 minimum donation for a cheap 10c card
heh) and you TOO can now be an official member of the cult of trump party, isn't that great?? - whoo-hoo! - put on the hammer records, we're all
ready to dance! :)))

this sad state of affairs perforce being the problem of people who DON'T
pay attention to history? they's unthinkingly doomed to endlessly repeat
it!

now hands-up ALL those that DIDN'T learn that particular lesson the FIRST
time round??

what... ALL OF YA'S???

well lol fuck me!

cooo-wee then all you cult members, it's nearly cool-aid rehearsal time!
:)))

swallow all that crap and one day it'll prolly even be the real thing :D

(it's no wonder really this planet is going to the dogs then huh: they's literally all as-dumb as a bucket of rocks... duh)

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: www.darkrealms.ca (1:229/2)