MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Says He "Probably" Inspired Trump's August Restoration Notion
Lindell's theory that Trump will be returned to office centers on the pillow magnate's claims that, together with a team of lawyers and well-intentioned "white hat" hackers, he has amassed incontrovertible proof of election fraud to present to the Supreme Court. Once that evidence is unveiled, in Lindell's telling, the stunned justices will rule 9-0 to return Trump to the presidency.
But Lindell may need to update his deadline. He originally came to the August date after deciding that the Supreme Court would overturn the election in either April or May, with the summer then devoted to hatching a government-wide consensus that Trump should retake the presidency in August.
This is wild it’s just like the Christians who keep moving the day back of the day they say god is going to come back
41% of Americans say Jesus Christ will return to earth by 2050 and ~80% believe in miracles.
You forgot the part where Israel must be controlled by Jews so that when Jesus returns the Jews can be slaughtered for not believing in Jesus. Hence, why psycho evangelical fundies support Israel but are extremely antisemitic. Supporting Israel gets rid of Palestinians (which in their mind are mostly Muslims) and also speeds up the rapture to evangelicals.
Honestly floored by how low those numbers are. Wonder what they are for Texas specifically
Yea my family is from rural Texas and the rapture is a pretty common talking points out there. They all think “we’re living in the end times” and it could be any day now.
Midwesterner with a mother who doesn't give a shit about anything that's going on in the world because she thinks she'll be raptured before she dies checking in.
Ever sit through an Evangelical Christian struggle session on whether “no man knows the day” means it’ll be later down the road and if we think it’ll happen it won’t or it’s definitely imminent? lol
Not really; most of my family is really Lutheran of some flavor, my mom just has a... esoteric perspective on her faith? What's funny is The Rapture isn't even a biblical event; some *nglo (John Nelson Darby) came up with it in the 1800's.
It's just kind of injected itself into collective conscience thanks to that shitty 1990's book series.
Ah my family were Pentecostal when my mom was growing up (I was raised nondenom tho) and I think they’re maybe a little more doomsday-y. At least that’s the vibe I’ve gotten by proxy.
The books definitely helped spread it but I think my family were hipster og’s for the rapture bc I remember hearing about this shit from birth.
If you try to point out it’s not biblical they always grab a couple things from revelations to prove it is. Same thing with modern depictions of hell. A lot of American Christian mythology is really fan fiction lol
you're floored that most of the country is like unlike rural texas?
No not necessarily. Floored was def too strong a word lol, but I really thought rapture beliefs and other Christian stuff like that were more widespread (at least another 10% on those scores) given how much it’s talked about being “part of being American” and how big mega churches are.
frankly i'm pretty skeptical about those numbers being so high -- like, you'd see way different approaches to savings or investment if people really, truly thought the rapture was nigh. that isn't to say people don't want to signal to pollsters about a deep christian conviction, or that there isn't a very real cultural divide (though that could already be inferred), but i'm not buying 40pct.
here's another pew poll, suggesting the rapture-heads are about half as many: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2009/04/21/the-second-coming-of-jesus/; you're gonna keep getting different, incoherent responses, all due to the prompt framing.
Idk 🤷♂️. Thing about religious stuff is people usually believe in it when it’s under attack or whatever but they don’t generally want to put in the work of living it daily or have it effect stuff that they want to do. They’re happy to judge others for not complying tho. At least that’s my anecdotal observation from growing up around it.
So I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people believed it but just assumed it’d take care of itself. Like you’re not meant to change your behavior or anything. if gods gonna take you, you’re good.
We know climate change is happening and we can barely get people to react to that
But yeah usually these kinds of polls fluctuate wildly according ti methodology and stuff
sure ya that all makes sense. don't have much else to add, but thanks for your post, and funny user name.
The 23% who said yes to "Can peoples and nations affect when Christ returns?" are the ones you need to watch.
These polls are headline grabbers. You ask stupid questions, you will get stupid answers. This data is near meaningless.
If we could somehow harness a fraction of this grifts self sustaining ability we could power a million ANTIFA super soldiers
I meant just harness the big brain power this shit takes like some energy vampire.
What's going to be the goal once Biden's term ends and a guy they like is elected and put into office? That it be recognized that Trump was the real president from 2021-2025?
It's like our very own Papal Schism; 40% of the country memory-holes Biden completely and claims Trump was a 2 term, 40% believes Trump was never a legitimate president, and 20% of the country is trying to kill off their brain cells as quickly as possible so they don't have to remember anything from the last decade.
There are going to be history textbooks in the future that when they have a list of presidents, Trump will be listed as president from 2017-2025, and Biden will just not be there.
about half of eligible americans don't vote. this "politics" meme isn't as endemic as the internet would have you believe.
From my experience even those people who don't vote still root for one of the two politicsball teams, but point taken
Goddamn people are so good at using emojis. I wish I had a good mental catalogue of all of them so I always had the perfect one. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Three words that will always make me smile.
I love you?
What? no: communism will win.
It's weird to me that Trump cares this much about getting back into the WH. The guy hates to work and being president, as prestigious as it is, had to have been a drag in some way. Is it the money?
I think it's basically two things...
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The grifting. I assume he made at least a few billion by being president.
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His bruised ego. Every day, every hour, every single second he's awake it must make him insane that people think of him as a loser. He desperately wants to erase the loss and be president again so he can be a winner and he can wield the world's biggest and most important megaphone.
If he wins a second term - I think he'll live and work out of his hotel. Why not? He thinks the White House is a dump and he always wants to give his properties more free advertising. So - why not have all official White House events at his hotel?
His base will love it and it will make the libs insane with impotent rage so his base will love it even more. Not only will third impeachment be impossible - the dems won't be able to do anything to stop Trump in any way. The GOP will control all the levers of power.
Trump is in the lobby of his hotel explaining how this new, better, classier TrumpBrand White House will work...
"See - it's bigger. Very bigger. Lotsa people don't know this but when I meet a dictator or a king - like in the Rose Garden - there's song that they can play 'cause I'm president. Hail to the Chief. He then hums it out of time and out of tune - dat-dat-dat dat-dat-dat daaaaaah / dat-dat-dat dat-dat-dat daaaaaah. It's okay but too much brass. A little brass is okay. But too much brass is too much brass."
"Now we got a reveal for the audience. See over there? That's Mike and the New White House band. It's a band with brass. But not too much brass. It's, like, Vegas brass with class." Trump raises his chin to the left - immediately Mike and the band play the riff. "See? It's okay but no mention of Trump. And Trump is president. I fixed it."
"And look over there... Those girls are the Trump Girls. They aren't just standing there 'cause they're pretty. Even thought they are pretty. And sexy. Can I say 'sexy'? I can because I'm even more president now. I can do anything."
Trump raises his chin but this time to the right. Mike and the band play the riff with the girls singing "Trump-Trump-Trump is greaaaat! Trump-Trump-Trump is greaaaat!" Trump intones "They'll do that every time. Maybe sometimes. Or every time. Sometimes. And this is just the first day of the TrumpBrand White House. Look this lobby. Beautiful lobby. More gold now. Best hotel lobby in the world. Next thing is everybody's favorite thing. It's the brand new Trump fountain - red, white, and blue..."
Seriously - if we're going to live in a nightmarish GOP dystopia - at least we should have Trump at the top so we have something to laugh at.
President DeSantis will not be funny.
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He doesn't want to be President, but he doesn't want to be the guy who lost to Sleepy Joe even more.
I hope he gets Trump to run again in 2024 it'll be so funny and give him back his twitter we need our slop damn it.
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imagine that pale ring around his eyes except it's around the hole
The rise of American fascism, like everything else in this country, is extremely dumb
