It screams "Cult" to me.
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NYT now has the email to Donald Trump Jr. offering Russian aid to "incriminate"
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Skinny Pete
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Hahahha winner.
jellies_two
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An article that goes with this interview isn't quite like that. He says he does not know Donald Jr or Goldstone, but his son does as they are a simile age, and he thinks the emails Don Jr posted are nonsense. Basically a sort of blanket I don't want to be involved / I don't know shit about this type denial.
TurnipFritters
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It's not weird unless they're speaking in tongues or slain in the Holy Spirit.
PingPongvonLaserstein
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It's honestly amazing. Yesterday we joked that Trump would deny he even has a son named Donald Trump Jr.
Joked.
Sidewinder
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All due respect to believers, but most religious things done in a group are cult like.
SparkleMotion
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So if they don't put their hands on him, their prayers won't work?
RPGCrazied
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Is that photo with people praying with Trump real? Never seen something like this before. Trump with not a religious bone in his body is being prayed for? Do they know someone is going down?
And of course you got that zealot Pence there.
And of course you got that zealot Pence there.
Lol the Latin Kings would be trumps personal hell
Yoshi
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Never seen any evidence for this.
You don't "understand", it's a very personal prayer. He made a pact with the
Are you fucking blind?
That's religion in general.
Agent Gibbs
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Its a little odd, my experience of Church was the Priest was the only one to lay hands on you (no nobody go there!), the only time I've ever seen an entire congregation do something on a kin with this was during times of extreme tragedy, like when my friend lost her mum at a young age due to cancer.
Doing this in a political scenario particularly with this politician and how his followers are viewed like a cult, is just so so weird, it feeds into that massively.
I keep a die hard Trump supporting 'friend' on facebook, purely to look down the rabbit hole on mental gymnastics and right now, he's on over drive with prayer posts and posts about 'mudslime' Hussain (Obama) and crooked Hillary being worse, he even used the phrase messiah when talking about how Trump has saved America....
the racism and lunacy is off the charts, there was a post the other day on his facebook about how melania had 4 aids, Michelle O had 20 something and the top comment was that even with 20 aids they couldn't make her look human! even a Republican pulled them up on how that was racist and was dogpiled for being a Liberal plant and not everything is racism.
I'm at the point where I don't want to look down the rabbit hole, I want it filling in and burying in a far off place
It certainly looks weird.
Excessively, needlessly, dramatic. More so considering everyone in that circle doesn't really care about the person they're laying hands on, beyond the security of their personal meal ticket. And Donald is too deluded to pick up on that.
RPGCrazied
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He always says its a witch hunt when its something he doesn't like or agree with it. And totally innocent and transparent huh? Not so transparent when you won't even show your taxes even though you promised you would.
And he only released these email's because the NYT was about to.
TheContact
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I'm sort of desensitized to all the incriminating evidence against Trump. Is this finally the killing blow?
if approval numbers dip to the 20s then maybe
if the base still backs him and he stays mid/upper 30s or so then nah
SparkleMotion
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Fox News spinning so hard that they've drilled down into the Earth's core.
Tezzeractor
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Never seen any evidence whatsoever that for the opposite.
A lawyer representing his client screams nothing happened.
Fidget-Spinner master.
That's an entirely unique take.
His core base won't waver, so he'll bottom out at low/mid 30's. WaPo: Tested by the many chapters of the Russia story, Republicans stand by Trump
If it is it will not be felt for x amount of time.
also not his job in any way shape or form
RPGCrazied
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I think the moment we see GOP tear away from Trump is when they start losing house/senate seats. And maybe when Mueller releases his findings.
Maybe if his approval ratings dips into the 20s, maybe.
Other then that sad to say they aren't going anywhere.
Nope
JonnyDBrit
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Fidget-Spinner master.
Ah yes, a Russian attorney, clearly the most well hidden spy.
Trump Jr. is true patriot, it's every patriots job to hunt socialists and communists!
Well he did he say he would die for Trump.
Fidget-Spinner master.
It's very weird.
R_thanatos
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Fidget-Spinner master.
Ouah , i expected no less from this crazy mouth piece
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Well, there is some in here and he says himself he is religious, so there is that, which usually is absolutely sufficient to assume it is true. Considering in addition, that relgiousness is the absolute norm in the US, I see absolutely no reason to doubt this, when at the same time I see lots of posters claiming he is not relgious as a fact.
Also, he seems quite fond of both corinthians.
Any Questions
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Fidget-Spinner master.
All the proof you need. And people will believe. Many many many millions of them.
Yeah
Congress is a mostly myopic beast. Unless it as a Republican body is placed into the position of either kicking Trump to the curb or losing their jobs to democrats and having them doing it anyway they aren't going to impeach a Republican president.
This is the biggest thing to keep in mind. It's not a matter of what evidence is brought up. It's a matter of what his popularity is.
RPGCrazied
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With every American its pretty bad. But with the GOP he is still at 85%, blows my mind really.
Is it wickedness? Is it weakness?
This reference is way too specific and I'm all for it.
DontBeThatGuy
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Nah, that's just what group prayer looks like. (and this motherfucker is NOT religious)
In all honesty, we're still at the stage where people saying Trump shouldn't be in his position would mean saying they voted wrong. It'll take time for that popularity to chip away with healthcare honestly being more likely to do damage than the entire Russia case.
plagiarize
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They'll waver if this strategy continues.
This is really only a way of trying to slow the rot to a crawl. Polls suggest he's losing people who strongly approve of him (they still approve though, but it indicates that even his base isn't immune)/ Once they lose a bunch of seats in the midterms, the faithful will start losing faith a lot quicker.
Agent Gibbs
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I'd 'hope' that (using terms very loosely here) that the 85% is mainly due to wanting a republican in power who will undo the black man's work, not a Dem and not because they actually approve of their leader being a stooge of Russia aka communists, who are second only to black people in the republican shit list it seems
Yoshi
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Since you are stating this for a fact, please tell me what leads to this hard claim. I actually think it is quite offensive to claim people believe something or don't believe something contrary to their own statement (without any proof that is).
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