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30 Nov 2016, 9:07 pm

So who would y'all rather have, Trump or Robertson?

I never knew that Roberson had ever run but the idea of him as president does amuse me... :twisted:


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30 Nov 2016, 9:09 pm

He would mandate teaching Intelligent Design in the schools.

There would be many people who would be blinded when True Knowledge is presented to them.



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30 Nov 2016, 9:09 pm

Raptor wrote:
So who would y'all rather have, Trump or Robertson?

I never knew that Roberson had ever run but the idea of him as president does amuse me... :twisted:
Not only that he won 9% of the vote and 4 Republican Primaries in 1988. He also almost won the Iowa Caucus.



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30 Nov 2016, 9:19 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
He would mandate teaching Intelligent Design in the schools.

There would be many people who would be blinded when True Knowledge is presented to them.
What about Pat Robertson's foreign policy?



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30 Nov 2016, 9:33 pm

pat Robertson is a war-mongering "chicken hawk" in that he got his senator daddy to get him out of Korean war duty. he doesn't walk the walk, he is all talk. he also believes that poor people will burn in hell because they must've done something bad to displease god [not work hard enough]. he is a disgusting hypocrite.



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30 Nov 2016, 9:35 pm

Robertson's foreign policy would be dangerously Isolationist---maybe worse than what Trump proposes.



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30 Nov 2016, 9:35 pm

auntblabby wrote:
pat Robertson is a war-mongering "chicken hawk" in that he got his senator daddy to get him out of Korean war duty. he doesn't walk the walk, he is all talk. he also believes that poor people will burn in hell because they must've done something bad to displease god [not work hard enough]. he is a disgusting hypocrite.
That's hy he would make one hell of a president.



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30 Nov 2016, 9:39 pm

Shahunshah wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
pat Robertson is a war-mongering "chicken hawk" in that he got his senator daddy to get him out of Korean war duty. he doesn't walk the walk, he is all talk. he also believes that poor people will burn in hell because they must've done something bad to displease god [not work hard enough]. he is a disgusting hypocrite.
That's hy he would make one hell of a president.

one hell of a BAD president. why do you think he'd made a good president?



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30 Nov 2016, 9:50 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Shahunshah wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
pat Robertson is a war-mongering "chicken hawk" in that he got his senator daddy to get him out of Korean war duty. he doesn't walk the walk, he is all talk. he also believes that poor people will burn in hell because they must've done something bad to displease god [not work hard enough]. he is a disgusting hypocrite.
That's hy he would make one hell of a president.

one hell of a BAD president. why do you think he'd made a good president?
I don't that's why I want to create a story around it. Basically an alternate history story where Pat Robertson becomes president.



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30 Nov 2016, 10:15 pm

Shahunshah wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Shahunshah wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
pat Robertson is a war-mongering "chicken hawk" in that he got his senator daddy to get him out of Korean war duty. he doesn't walk the walk, he is all talk. he also believes that poor people will burn in hell because they must've done something bad to displease god [not work hard enough]. he is a disgusting hypocrite.
That's hy he would make one hell of a president.

one hell of a BAD president. why do you think he'd made a good president?
I don't that's why I want to create a story around it. Basically an alternate history story where Pat Robertson becomes president.

think of it as a description of a dystopia. you just have to flesh it out along authoritarian religious lines. but be aware that such has been written about in at least one novel, "the handmaid's tale" by Margaret Atwood. I would read that one first so you can know what to borrow and what to avoid.



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30 Nov 2016, 11:22 pm

Imagine having a President who believes God talks to him directly, because that's what Robertson does. On his show, he has what he calls his "word of knowledge," in which he makes predictions that he claims come directly for the Almighty. So far, his predictions are no better than Ed Wood Jr's friend, the psychic Criswell, who had been making predictions such as that there would be a base on Mars by the 1970's.


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30 Nov 2016, 11:49 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Imagine having a President who believes God talks to him directly, because that's what Robertson does. On his show, he has what he calls his "word of knowledge," in which he makes predictions that he claims come directly for the Almighty. So far, his predictions are no better than Ed Wood Jr's friend, the psychic Criswell, who had been making predictions such as that there would be a base on Mars by the 1970's.
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scary prediction would be what a president Robertson would make come true by executive fiat/rubber stamp dominionist congress. 8O



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01 Dec 2016, 2:18 am

auntblabby wrote:
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Imagine having a President who believes God talks to him directly, because that's what Robertson does. On his show, he has what he calls his "word of knowledge," in which he makes predictions that he claims come directly for the Almighty. So far, his predictions are no better than Ed Wood Jr's friend, the psychic Criswell, who had been making predictions such as that there would be a base on Mars by the 1970's.
the
scary prediction would be what a president Robertson would make come true by executive fiat/rubber stamp dominionist congress. 8O


The very thought chills my liver. :pale:
I like to think the blue states would have held out against him and his religionists.


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01 Dec 2016, 2:25 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Imagine having a President who believes God talks to him directly, because that's what Robertson does. On his show, he has what he calls his "word of knowledge," in which he makes predictions that he claims come directly for the Almighty. So far, his predictions are no better than Ed Wood Jr's friend, the psychic Criswell, who had been making predictions such as that there would be a base on Mars by the 1970's.
the
scary prediction would be what a president Robertson would make come true by executive fiat/rubber stamp dominionist congress. 8O


The very thought chills my liver. :pale:
I like to think the blue states would have held out against him and his religionists.

or, absent that, at least done something along the lines of califorewashexit.



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01 Dec 2016, 2:37 am

auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Imagine having a President who believes God talks to him directly, because that's what Robertson does. On his show, he has what he calls his "word of knowledge," in which he makes predictions that he claims come directly for the Almighty. So far, his predictions are no better than Ed Wood Jr's friend, the psychic Criswell, who had been making predictions such as that there would be a base on Mars by the 1970's.
the
scary prediction would be what a president Robertson would make come true by executive fiat/rubber stamp dominionist congress. 8O


The very thought chills my liver. :pale:
I like to think the blue states would have held out against him and his religionists.

or, absent that, at least done something along the lines of califorewashexit.


So far, I'd like to stay and fight.


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01 Dec 2016, 2:39 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Imagine having a President who believes God talks to him directly, because that's what Robertson does. On his show, he has what he calls his "word of knowledge," in which he makes predictions that he claims come directly for the Almighty. So far, his predictions are no better than Ed Wood Jr's friend, the psychic Criswell, who had been making predictions such as that there would be a base on Mars by the 1970's.
the
scary prediction would be what a president Robertson would make come true by executive fiat/rubber stamp dominionist congress. 8O


The very thought chills my liver. :pale:
I like to think the blue states would have held out against him and his religionists.

or, absent that, at least done something along the lines of califorewashexit.


So far, I'd like to stay and fight.

but how?