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Democratic Rep. Who Survived Jonestown Massacre Compares Trump to Jim Jones: The Only Difference Is ‘We Now Have Social Media’
https://www.mediaite.com ^ | Aug 1st, 2021, 1:58 pm | By Ken Meyer

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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: Red Badger

i was in DC for the rally on Jan 6th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZHUotUfIE

no cultists there. just leftists cultists at the capitol.


41 posted on 08/03/2021 6:12:33 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: Bon of Babble

She represents District 14, San Francisco/San Mateo, which is quite like Jonestown.


42 posted on 08/03/2021 6:14:27 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Red Badger

The fact that she was a Jim Jones acolyte tells me all I need to know.


43 posted on 08/03/2021 6:17:02 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: SueRae
Ironically, she is filling the seat once held by Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated on orders from Jim Jones when he flew down to Guyana to investigate.

The killing so shocked the district that they actually elected a Republican in the special election to succeed him.

Of course, stupid is as stupid does, Tom Lantos (who lost that special election) came back to win the next regular election and proceeded to warm that seat until he died in office in 2008. Spier won that special election and has held the office ever since.

44 posted on 08/03/2021 6:20:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: SueRae

Dumb? I’m not sure that is quite true. She is a full blown Marxist. Revrun Jim was a Marxist. The dummies, IMHO, are the California voters who elected this piece of trash.


45 posted on 08/03/2021 6:21:49 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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Democratic being the key word…party of insanity…


46 posted on 08/03/2021 6:24:36 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Red Badger
Jim Jones was a Democrat Icon. Democrats used to fight to get photo ops with him…

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/drinking-the-kool-aid-remember-when-jim-jones-was-a-hero-to-democrats/
47 posted on 08/03/2021 6:24:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Red Badger

We have a loon that was part of a murderous death cult, now part of a second murderous cult called communism, trying to brand Trump a cult leader. A classic case of ‘projection’.


48 posted on 08/03/2021 6:29:02 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: lee martell

McCain did have the same condition and it had nothing to do with PTSD. GREEDY CORRUPT iINSECURE are only part of McCain’s psychosis. At 5’9” he suffered from little man syndrome which was very evident especially in his later life. He was a pathetic man.


49 posted on 08/03/2021 6:30:14 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Red Badger
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), a survivor of the Jonestown massacre

Only a fool would have fallen for that madness in the first place, and apparently she hasn't gotten any smarter.

50 posted on 08/03/2021 6:34:40 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
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To: Red Badger

“”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.””

I guess dems are never going to wake up and admit that differences of opinion are not LIES!


51 posted on 08/03/2021 6:37:03 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SueRae
"She was dumb enough to follow Jim Jones but still managed to get elected to Congress."

That says something not very good about those who elected her.

52 posted on 08/03/2021 6:38:54 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Red Badger

Jackie Speier wants to keep cashing in on surviving Jim Jones.


53 posted on 08/03/2021 6:38:59 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: aynrandfreak

“”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.””

You’re correct and that should have been easy enough for anyone to check out before posting that she was a follower of Jim Jones.


54 posted on 08/03/2021 6:39:46 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Red Badger
She needs to do some research....


55 posted on 08/03/2021 6:41:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vetvetdoug

“”The fact that she was a Jim Jones acolyte tells me all I need to know.””

She wasn’t - easy enough to check out. She was a congressional aide to Congressman Ryan who was killed that day.


56 posted on 08/03/2021 6:43:23 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Bookshelf
She represents District 14, San Francisco/San Mateo, which is quite like Jonestown.

Oh, I know. I have immediate family in both areas that I visit frequently.

Every time we leave my husband mutters "I'm never coming back here again!"

Yet the people there keep voting for these idiots - Breed, Pelosi, Biden, Harris, etc.

57 posted on 08/03/2021 6:45:23 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: SueRae

Well, so what?! Resident Biden has Charles Manson for a role model. And it is a life and death cult. Just ask the 4 Capitol police who committed ‘suicide’ after participating in the Jan.6 globalists coup.


58 posted on 08/03/2021 6:50:35 AM PDT by RideForever (Know Islam, No Peace; Know Peace, No Islam)
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To: Red Badger

The woman is an idiot.


59 posted on 08/03/2021 6:59:06 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media)
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To: Red Badger
a survivor of the Jonestown massacre

No, she was a member of the Peoples Temple. Those that shot and killed a Congressman who traveled to Guyana to see the Peoples Temple.
60 posted on 08/03/2021 7:03:27 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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