The Donald Trump Score Card

All of which might be the biggest tragedy of all. It's always been the responsibility of lawmakers to do what is best for our country and it's people. Instead, the rule today seems only to do what's best for the Republican party.

The GOP lawmakers aren't stupid (most of them, anyway). They know how bad Trump is for the country and democracy but their actions indicate that their ultimate mission is only to make sure that their political party is as strong as it can be.

If citizens recognize this,, the hope is that they would vote to prevent it. Unfortunately, tens of millions of folks either can't....or won't....see it.

 

A rioter embraces Trump as a father figure. It's a recurring attribute of Trump fans.


Kanye West: Donald Trump Is Father Figure Who Makes Him Feel Like “Superman” – Deadline

 

‘Daddy’ Donald Trump is looking out for you!

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...81b36e-8b14-11e6-bff0-d53f592f176e_story.html

excerpt:

"A question that should be asked at the next presidential debate: Does America have daddy issues?

Donald Trump is the "strict dad" that America needs, said a 56-year-old emergency-room nurse last week at a rally in Melbourne, Fla.

"He's the kind of man you would want to be your dad," a Los Angeles Trump supporter, whose son was killed by an undocumented immigrant, said in July.

"He's the father figure I always wanted," a hairstylist told the Boston Globe in December. "I feel like he's protecting me."

“Trump reminds me so much of my father,” Jerry Falwell Jr. told Fox News."

 

I’m just trying to figure out how they felt safe and secure when Trump was in office?

 

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Attributes of a cult.


Qualities & Characteristics of a Cult | Dr. Janja Lalich

excerpt:

• The group displays an excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
• Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
• Mind-altering practices (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, or debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
• The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (e.g., members must get permission to date, change jobs, or marry—or leaders prescribe what to wear, where to live, whether to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).
• The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s), and its members (e.g., the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).
• The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.
• The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders, or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).
• The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (e.g., lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).
• The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.
• Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
• The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.
• The group is preoccupied with making money.
• Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.
• Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.
• The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave—or even consider leaving—the group.

 

It's not uncommon for the leader of a cult to have a charismatic personality and also a significant mental pathology but yet healthy enough to be able to run a cult, at least in the short term.

Jim Jones and David Koresh are two examples who, in the longer run, self-destructed. Another possible attribute of a cult is the professing of an upcoming Armageddon and one that actually occurs and destroys the cult after incurring a major stressor, such as being faced with accountability from outside the cult.

Cults tend to be thought of as being special-interest, limited in membership, and spatially local, but cases exist where half or more of the population of a country becomes significantly manipulated by them.

 

An attribute of Falwell that he shared with Trump was his desire to capitalize financially and have complete control over someone else who was in a dire situation.

Falwell took over the PTL Club when Jim Bakker was embroiled in financial problems and personal problems with women.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...rom-ptl/d01bd818-5fea-411f-964f-5c80d2c903e5/

excerpt:

"FORT MILL, S.C., APRIL 28 -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell today placed himself firmly in control of the PTL empire and barred its founder, Jim Bakker, from retaking the pulpit.

Beneath crystal chandeliers in the ballroom of the grand hotel built by Jim and Tammy Bakker with money from their flock, Falwell announced that the board had cut all payments to the Bakkers, who have received $4.8 million since January 1984 in salaries and bonuses."

 

Falwell quit the PTL Club a few months later.


FALWELL QUITS, WARNING PTL MINISTRY MAY END (Published 1987)

excerpt:

"The Rev. Jerry Falwell and the entire board of the troubled PTL television ministry resigned today, asserting that a ruling by a Federal bankruptcy judge had made it impossible to rebuild the ministry.

Mr. Falwell said that the ministry, which is based in Fort Mill, S.C., would not be able to meet the payroll for its 1,200 employees Friday and that it could be off the air in three weeks.

At a news conference at PTL's Heritage USA theme park in Fort Mill, Mr. Falwell, who has a separate ministry in Lynchburg, said he could not continue to run PTL unless he was assured that the ministry would not be given back to its founder, Jim Bakker, the defrocked evangelist."

 

Trusty pulls out of Trump's lawsuit against CNN.


Trump attorney quits another case, cites ‘irreconcilable differences’

 

Majority wants Trump to drop out of race.


https://www.npr.org/2023/06/16/1182...p-to-drop-out-but-hes-getting-stronger-with-g

 

Trump and the GOP still can't locate the witnesses and recordings of the alleged evidence of Biden corruption.

They're saying that the FBI is hiding the evidence, another claim they haven't been able to substantiate.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/maybe-don-t-exist-republicans-193218007.html

excerpt:

"I don’t even know where they are. I just know they exist, because of what the report says. Now, maybe they don’t exist. But how will I know until the FBI tells us, are they showing us their work?” Grassley said Thursday.

 

How much prison time could Trump face? Past cases brought steep punishment for document hoarders

 

Muncie marine pleads guilty to rioting at Capitol.

That completes the trio of marines. The other two pleaded guilty this week.


https://news.snbc13.com/muncie-marine-pleads-guilty-to-capitol-riot/

 

In Trump Prosecution, Special Counsel Seeks to Avoid Distracting Fights

 

Trump sided with the police during the protests in 2020 against police being abusive. He made it another one of his culture wars, but It damaged his reelection bid.

He sided with his rioters and was critical of police officers who tried to stop his insurrection at the Capitol..


Pattern of discriminatory, unlawful policing in Minneapolis made George Floyd murder 'possible,' DOJ finds

 

I think Jack Smith knows how to play this chess game, from the years of experience as a high level prosecutor, and that he’s very detailed, calm and measured at his approach to this case, but it kills me to see that they’re trying to avoid what obviously and truly needs to happen, which is, after all this damning evidence and piling up of charges and indictments-it’s cut and dry-Trump should not be allowed to run for president!!!

*(sorry for the run-on sentence)