Posted on 08/03/2021 5:20:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), a survivor of the Jonestown massacre, went all the way out there as she compared Donald Trump to the infamous cult leader, Jim Jones.
CNN’s Brian Stelter held a Reliable Sources segment on Sunday that focused on the international perspectives on the former president’s political movement, including the view from critics that his following is a “cult.” Speier was shot while she was on an investigative mission to Jonestown decades ago, so Stelter asked for her thoughts, and she said “there is no question that you could compare” Jones and Trump as “merchants of deceit.”
You look at Donald Trump, a charismatic leader, who was able to continue to talk in terms that appealed to those who were disaffected, disillusions and who were looking for something, much like those who became part of Jim Jones’ congregation, the Peoples Temple. They were lost souls, and the only difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media. So all these people can find themselves in ways that they couldn’t find themselves before.
Spier said she was reluctant to compare Trump to Jones, but after the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the parallels become more blatant to her. She also accused the GOP of “cult-like behavior” after seeing how many people in the party backed Trump’s baseless election lies that fueled the crowd on January 6th.
“The big lie has now been embraced by the majority of members on the Republican side in the House of Representatives. They are now paralyzed to speak truth,” Speier said. “They know that the election was not stolen. They know that it was held properly. They know that there was not massive fraud, and yet they will continue to mouth those words because their leader, Donald Trump, wants to hear them.”
Stelter predicted Trump’s media allies will attack Speier for branding Trump voters as “cultists,” so he asked the congresswoman if she differentiates among the former president’s supporters. She answered by saying Trump voters “are on all different levels,” and while she doesn’t put every one of them in the same category, she stood by her view that Trump’s rioting supporters at the Capitol “are members of a cult.”
Watch above, via CNN.
VIDEO AT LINK......(If you can stomach it)..............
She was dumb enough to follow Jim Jones but still managed to get elected to Congress. Okay...
Dems are so vile, so repulsive. The media fawns over Dems no matter what they say. That reflexive adoration leads Dems to reveal who they really are in statements like this latest nonsense.
Too many drugs in the 60s. Bless her heart.
..and Democrat/Communist voters are brain dead zombies. So there..
You beat me to it, that was my exact thought.
Or not enough.........at Jonestown..................
See eye ah?
We were here before Trump and we’ll be here after Trump. This is not a cult as no one is being forced to join and stay.
It’s not the Dems. It’s the GLOBALISTS. There are globalists and populists now.
At least you know where D’s are coming from. They’re honest in being vile, evil people. The R’s TELL YOU they are there to oppose this evil, but they are in ACTIVE SUPPORT of it, and then LIE TO US they aren’t.
Which one is more evil?
It is the ONLY thing that explains the extreme vituperation they have with DJT.
This, all of this, is an operation. We’re being led to either complete subjugation, or outright extermination.
Hence the ‘Don’t question it, just TAKE IT’ nature of the vaccination campaign.
I don’t think she followed Jim Jones. I think she was there with the Congressional group & media that got ambushed. That said, she is still dumb for not seeing the same cult-like attitude of CRT in her own party.
...and what’s her vote on abortion?
The truth is that Jim Jones was a communist through and through.
Jim Jones was a big Democrat supporter in California.
Thank you. If that’s her case; she is making a false equivalent between the two. They will never get over the fact that a non-politician outgamed and outperformed them all.
“It’s not the Dems. It’s the GLOBALISTS. “
I’ve recognized the globalist vs. nationalist battle ever since GWB.
I agree with your post.
Jim Jones was a big Communist.............
For someone who was there in Guyana, and had to escape the murders, Ive never understood how she justifies her hard left mindset. Maybe, like most people, she enjoys the power money and apparent popularity of parroting those views, whether they logically make sense or not. It could even be a form of PTSD after an event of extreme suffering. I think John McCain had the same condition.
BTW biden couldn’t make kool-aid is you gave him a picture fuIl of water.
Now why would anyone take advise on who to support from a woman who is so stupid, she followed Jim Jones into the jungle where he nearly killed her with all the others he murdered?
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