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Yes please!
At this point, his people would count it as a win. "He was in jail, just like Martin Luther King!"
Four legs good, two legs better!
Guaranteed his supporters would compare him to Mandela
Literally comparing him to Jesus.
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This reminds me of those mini Christian comics that always ended with some horrific cartoon of hell or people suffering damnation. I used to read those as a Christian kid, before I grew our of religion. they were made to get you afraid of god, and remind you that god loves you, but will annihilate you and toss you in a torture dungeon if you disobey him.
Your username reminded me of this old satire from the National Lampoon
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Ah, the jack chick tracts. Nothing like a good, puritanical hell raising inside of a child's head.
I read quite a few of them and the only sentence I gained from them was "the standard is good behavior, not other people". That's it. All the works of that professional writer/moralizer over his entire life and I think he had only one single idea worth remembering. Which makes me think he probably plagiarized it.
That's an absurd comparison! Trump unfortunately exists.
After the 2016 election, there was a panel discussion with all the creators of the top political TV dramas. Veep, House Of Cards, The West Wing, Scandal, and others. All the participants said the same thing; if they'd had a character who'd said that he didn't think POWs deserved respect the networks and sponsors would have demanded that he be reviled and hated by all Americans.