There's some large guy onstage at the DC rally named "Shofar So Great" ( https://shofarsogreat.com/about-us/ ) claiming to be an Orthodox Jew who says his rabbi in Israel gave him permission to break Shabbat to support Donald Trump and blow the shofar at the Jericho March.
Now he's blowing the Trump Shofar, especially made for You Know Who. This dude is like a wizard.
Lady in Women For Trump t-shirt came onstage to praise "Yeshua ha Mashiach" -- Jesus the Messiah -- and to sing the Star Spangled Banner. Crowd shouts, "USA! USA!" Now comes Eric Metaxas praising "Yeshua ha Mashiach." Says Eric, "'Hallelujah' is American for 'praise the Lord.'"
Eric says that a man had a vision of the Jericho March a few days ago. "When God gives you a vision, you don't need to know anything else." That's his approach to this entire thing. He just asked ppl to use the code ERIC when they buy a MyPillow. Now Mike Lindell is talking.
Mike Lindell talking about all the prophetic visions and dreams he has had about Donald Trump. Then God arranged for him to meet Trump. What is so fascinating about this is how these believers think that all of this Trump stuff is directed by God.
This is important. It's why Metaxas said on Charlie Kirk this week that he didn't care about evidence. These people know by direct revelation that all of this is true. It is completely unfalsifiable. This is the right-wing Christian version of the woke CRT people's theories.
Conservative Catholic friend texts: "One generation had its
Rites of Spring, and we get...this...". Yeah. They had Stravinsky, we get a praise band.
It's FELLINI! Metaxas says Marine One will soon be hovering above the crowd. Trump is ascending from on high to bless the mighty throng. "Praise God!" says Metaxas. "Thank you Jesus! God bless America! ... That's not the Messiah, that's just the President."
Founder of Jericho March claims God poked him in the side and woke him up. "God said it's not over." Then God showed him a vision of the Jericho Marches. Then God introduced him to a woman who had the same vision. None of this, you understand, can be questioned. It's revealed.
I am a believing Christian. I believe God sometimes sends prophetic visions. If that happens, you should test them. You should question them. They require deep discernment. These Christians, though, they question nothing. Claim God's mandate for whatever they like. It's wrong!
Now on stage a shamanic Catholic priest, Fr. Bramlage, claiming to be exorcist, praying down heaven to deliver America from demons. These are real deliverance prayers. He is saying, in effect, that to oppose Trump & his re-election is Satanic. No, THIS is Satanic!
I wonder what the Protestants in this crowd are thinking about the Catholic priest addressing prayers to Mary, the saints, and the angels. And now the opera singer belting out Ave Maria. Trumpy ecumenism is a fascinating religious development.
To be clear, I believe in the power of exorcism. That's why it infuriates me to see it deployed on behalf of Donald Trump's political ambitions (or any candidates). It's profaning what is sacred. It's using something holy to literally demonize those who don't side w/Trump.
Gen. Flynn is onstage saying that his MyPillow gave him the best sleep of his life. Then he said the Our Father (got it right this time). Jesus, America, hucksterism.
This Flynn speech is important. He said, "The Courts don't decide the election, we the people decide." But later: "The rule of law is at stake." In the same speech in which he declared mob rule, not the legal institutions ordained by the Constitution, determine election results.
He also told people to ignore their minds and listen to their hearts, because that is where you determine truth. It's all about feeling. All. About. Feeling. Don't think, feel. This is 100% what Metaxas was saying this week: logic & evidence matter not.
You watch: this movement is going to end up demanding that Gen. Flynn become the military dictator of America.
Now, at the height of Flynn speech, Trump appears overhead in Marine One. Like an apparition!
Flynn: Every time they attack Trump, they're attacking you. Total identification of the collective with the man, Trump. I hate facile comparisons, but think of what Rudolf Hess said at 1934 Nuremberg Party rally: “The Party is Hitler! But Hitler is Germany, as Germany is Hitler!”
Holy cow, renegade Archbishop Vigano addresses crowd by video! Again, this is *really* significant: Trump devotion demolishing walls between conservative Catholics and Evangelicals.
"We are the silent army of the Children of Light," Archbishop Vigano tells crowd. Fighting for Trump is a holy crusade, says the man who is the most potent enemy of Pope Francis. He's talking about the Deep State now.
Interesting that Vigano, an Italian citizen, keeps talking about "our homeland," as if America was his. Is he internationalizing MAGA?
"God bless our President," Vigano prays. Again, he is an Italian citizen. He describes, in prayer, the pro-Trump people gathered as an "army" that serves "under Thy holy banner."
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