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)..............
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.
She represents District 14, San Francisco/San Mateo, which is quite like Jonestown.
The fact that she was a Jim Jones acolyte tells me all I need to know.
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.
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.
Democratic being the key word…party of insanity…
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’.
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.
Only a fool would have fallen for that madness in the first place, and apparently she hasn't gotten any smarter.
“”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!
That says something not very good about those who elected her.
Jackie Speier wants to keep cashing in on surviving Jim Jones.
“”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.
“”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.
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.
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.
The woman is an idiot.
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