@AverageSue : Meanwhile in MAGA world.

At one of Trump's latest rallies, he made jokes about people who had passed out, he ran out of stupid B.S. rhetoric, he turned on music and [danced]? for a half hour. If Kamala Harris had done this the Republican party would be screaming bloody murder.

@mypeez :
Is this at all surprising?

@skutfarcus : No, not at all.

Does anyone on the Christian Right or Christian Evangelicals that faithfully support Trump....
even know if Trump has even attended church in the last 4 years since leaving office (or how often he went while POTUS) or ever pledged or belonged to a church. Sure, a person can still have faith, have prayers, and believe while not belonging to a church. But I wonder if those Christians would still vote if he hasn't even belonged to a church, or gone to church in years? I'm sure Pence when VP attended church more often while Trump left town to play golf. I can understand it's a lot more complicated security-wise to attend church every Sunday for a POTUS.
I sometimes wonder if Trump's appearances, or people like Ben Carson are assuming Trump's actual faith and Christian beliefs? Or is he just saying these things to get votes? Especially when in the Bible (to paraphrase), "Love your enemies" while he constantly insults other races, disabled, and paints all illegal immigrants as criminals?apnews.com/article/e vangelical-voters-tr ump-christians-belie vers-151b02dd34

@DennisinPeoria : Read up on the church Trump attended as a kid.How Norman Vincent Peale Taught Donald Trump to Worship Himself
The magnate's biographer explains the spiritual guide behind his relentless self-confidence.
October 06, 2015
www.politico.com/mag azine/story/2015/10/ donald-trump-2016-no rman-vincent-pe

After the second Republican debate, when it appeared Donald Trump's lead was finally starting to slip, and Carly Fiorina and Marco Rubio were gaining traction, Trump himself, in typical fashion, appeared to only see positive signs. He told Fox News' Sean Hannity that only the polls (Time, Drudge Report, Newsmax) that showed him having picked up support mattered because they represented "the people who vote." The happy talk was relentless: After speakers at the Emmy Awards on Sept. 20 ridiculed him, Trump told Politico that the evening had been "amazing." More recently, Trump berated a news photographer who dared to take pictures of empty seats at one of his rallies, insisting his events were as packed as ever.

 

Is this guy for real? Or more to the point, could anyone really possess that much self-confidence? There has been no shortage of explanations-a huge inferiority complex, infantile narcissism, delusional thinking-for Trump's undying self-assurance. But as I discovered when writing a book about Donald, his father, and his grandfather, if you want to understand what goes on underneath the blond comb-over, you'd do well to look back to two crucial events in the early 1950s.

 

Event No. 1 occurred in October 1952, when a book appeared called The Power Of Positive Thinking. Written by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and translated into 15 languages, it remained on the New York Times best-seller list for 186 weeks and sold 5 million copies. Donald was only 6 years old at the time and didn't read the book until much later, but it quickly became important in the large Queens household in which he grew up, and it would play a critical role in his future. His parents, Fred and Mary, felt an immediate affinity for Peale's teachings. On Sundays, they drove into Manhattan to worship at Marble Collegiate Church, where Peale was the head pastor. Donald and both his sisters were married there, and funeral services for both Fred and Mary took place in the main sanctuary.

 

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Event No. 2 in the early 1950s-and in the development of Donald's personality and style-was the emergence of modern branding. At the dawn of the 20th century, most makers of consumer products focused only on selling as much as possible. But by mid-century, manufacturers of everything from laundry soap and baked beans to automobiles and airlines were taking their focus a few steps further: concentrating not just on how much rolled off the assembly line but on polishing and enhancing the aura and attractiveness of the product.

 

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Whether or not Trump's tireless self-advertisement will be enough to gain the Republican nomination, much less elect a president, is unknown. But it may well be that Trump will run into some of the same criticism as Peale himself later did. In an essay titled "Some Negative Thinking About Norman Vincent Peale," a theologian from Yale University, William Lee Miller, wrote that Peale's books had become "worse" since the original because "the rhetoric of the sermon has been replaced by the short, punchy sentences of the advertisement."
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A Future Gig, if he loses?The closing posting came from Occupy Democrats, so I'd want to verify this is true, especially since McDonald's is misspelled. Edit: confirmed on AP News, but the Drive thru was open so Trump could hand out fries to customers, and hold a presser to claim Harris never worked at one. He probably got info from a Conservative website that searched her resume, found it not listed when applying for a legal position. HELLO? Why list a fast food job if you're looking for a legal job? Anyone heard of a resume with "Related Experience"? I did some of those when looking for a FT video job between 2013 and June, 2021.Just another big a** lie just like his claim of Obama being born in Kenya. His advisors probably said that it'd be hard for Harris to find work documentation from Summer, 1983. And of course, DJT blasted Harris saying she never worked at a McDonalds when she was younger, without providing evidence, as usual. Harris has said she worked at one while in college.