Since it’s obviously not about objective reality.
- Lance Wallnau says Trump’s strike on Iran is setting the stage for the Antichrist;
- With thoughts about what humanity is “for”;
- Trump confuses supercells with sleeper cells;
- Vox on how Trump’s actions aren’t actually very popular;
- Trump challenges AOC to a cognitive test — sure, bring it on!
A follow-up to yesterday’s title item.
Right Wing Watch, Kyle Mantyla, 23 Jun 2025: Lance Wallnau Says Trump’s Strike On Iran Is Setting The Stage For ‘The Antichrist Emerging’
I’ll only quote just a bit.
On the supernatural side, Wallnau said that the strike on Iran was setting the stage for the End Times.
“Jesus is coming back and I believe that this is all part of him setting the stage for his return,” Wallnau said. “It’s going to be an opening of the window through the State Department for the gospel of freedom to be preached into the Middle East, into Asia during these a couple of years we’ve got with Trump. We’ve got to move fast [to see] that this Gospel of the Kingdom goes into all the nations.”
Once again, this is nonsense; it’s people acting as if they’re in a demon-haunted fantasy novel, or game: an MMRPG, which I’m going to define as “massively multiplayer role-playing game” an analogy with MMORPG, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Religions aren’t online.
The RWW piece has this bio of Lance Wallnau:
A former oil executive turned right-wing evangelist, Wallnau is a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and a leading proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, which seeks to place right-wing Christians atop the seven primary “mountains” that shape society: government, education, media, arts and entertainment, family, religion, and business.
Once again we can step out to the big picture and wonder what humans are for. (But even that begs the question that humans are “for” something. Maybe we just *are*.) Are we servants to a creator who must be worshiped, as slaves worshiped their masters, and should society remain static in order to maintain this function? Or are we an evolved species, a product of the workings of an immense universe, a way in which the universe has become aware of itself, as Carl Sagan put it, and are only beginning our journey into awareness? If there’s anything like “progress” over human history — which I think there has been, in terms of human health and longevity, and in terms of humans understanding their place in the vast universe — it’s not come from religious movements seeking to maintain the status quo.
This seems to be the central issue in the future of the human race.
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Meanwhile, our president, endorsed by those evangelists because he’s fulfilling their prophecies, supposedly, doesn’t know the difference between supercells and sleeper-cells.
JMG, 24 Jun 2025: Trump Says “Biden Let In A Lot Of Supercells” [AUDIO]
“Biden let a lot of supercells into the United States. He was an incompetent president. He had no idea what he was doing. It was gross incompetence. Among everything else, he let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran. But hopefully we’ll take care of them. What Biden did to this country should never be forgotten.” – Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One while en route to The Hague.
Clearly, Trump is the incompetent one, and it’s telling that his fans don’t care. (A supercell is a meteorological term.)
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Here we are. Buyer’s Remorse?
Vox, Christian Paz, 24 Jun 2025: Trump keeps reminding the American public to dislike him, subtitled “The public doesn’t like it when the president actually does something.”
President Donald Trump is now the most unpopular he has been during his second term.
More than half of American adults disapprove of the job he is doing, and he’s underwater on nearly every important issue of the day.
The polling averages show this net disapproval clearly: On the economy, he’s down 13 percentage points. On inflation, he’s down 20 points. Even on immigration, he’s down 2 points. (Those negative marks include foreign policy, though it’s too soon to say how the public is reacting to Trump’s decision to join Israel’s bombing of Iran.)
Still, Trump’s popularity decline has been a dramatic development: After entering office with a positive approval rating and popular support for his agenda, he’s squandered much of it away through various political fights, policy decisions, and public spectacles.
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By all means, let’s do this.
JMG, 24 Jun 2025: Trump Challenges “Stupid AOC” To Cognitive Test
Trump:
“Stupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before.
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“When we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office but, nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the Failed Country that she comes from doesn’t have a Government, is drenched in Crime and Poverty, and is rated one of the WORST in the World, if it’s even rated at all. “
Bring it on! Do it live on TV! But it has to be a real, legitimate test. Note again how Trump is obsessed with superficialities: IQ scores (which no one cares about once you’ve been admitted to college, if you have), and ratings.
