Everyday Erinyes – Special Delusion Edition

With polls telling us things like "51% of Trump supporters believe his executive orders should override the Federal Courts" and "43% of VOTERS approve of Trump and his policies," you may be wondering why so many people have such aberrant opinions.  While 51% of Trump voters is less than a quarter of all Americans, that is still a scary number.  Well, Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way, may have some answers for us – that is, for you, me, and the Furies.  As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone. These roughly translate as "unceasing," "grudging," and "vengeful destruction."

I read PFAW's RWW newsletter whenever it hits my inbox, but this week I was struck – it almost felt like being slapped – by the consistency of message which was being reported.  Firstly, there was a story on Rick Wiles.

Rick is a conspiracy theorist and End Times radio host whose program is called "Trunews."  (Does this imply he thinks that "alternative facts" are "tru," as opposed to "true"?)  He's been overshadowed by Alex Jones and others, but maybe he shouldn't be.  Maybe we need to be aware where the wingnuts are getting their "information."  And what "information" it is!  Here is a sampling of Rick's Ravings:

We are witnessing a full-blown Marxist/communist resistance movement, a revolution in America….  The chief banker funding the Purple Revolution is billionaire George Soros and the chief community organizer directing the insurrection in the streets is none other than Barack Hussein Obama … My gut feeling says Barack Obama is on the phone day and night and he is directing the protests, he is organizing, he is giving clear instructions to the people what to do and how to carry it out.

This is outright sedition … and we have laws in the United States against sedition….  What the Democrats are doing, and the news media and the Obamanista bureaucrats inside the government agencies, what they are doing is, these are acts of sedition….  You wanna get God worked up? You know what sedition reminds Him of?… Lucifer. It all goes back to Lucifer because what Lucifer did in heaven was commit sedition … So all acts of sedition are inspired by Lucifer.

If you haven't already filled a barf bag or two, you can listen to the whole program if you click through.  There are also links to some previous articles featuring him.  One of the articles even references genital mutilation.  Incidentally, the dictionary says "wile" means "a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice."  How – um – transparent.

The next article concerns a probably more familiar name – Jim Bakker.  Remember him?  He used to be a felon.  Well.  He had fellow "evangelist" Billye Brim on his show (would she be the inventor and chief distributor of "Brimstone®"?  But I digress.)

Bakker told evangelist Billye Brim that he encountered “four rotten little girls” demonstrating against Trump during the president’s inauguration, asserting: “It was a possession, it’s the demons.”

“What’s happening is we’ve had leaders who have opened our country to demon powers,” he said. “They have worked for the dark side, the other side. We have millions of demon-possessed people in this country now.”

Brim agreed that demons were behind such anti-Trump protests such as the Women’s March on Washington and urged viewers to pray for confusion in their ranks.

Personally, I think what happened to Jim Bakker is that he got possessed, had an exorcism, failed to pay the exorcist's bill for services rendered, and was repossessed.  Which might also explain Dr. Brim (I have no idea where the degree is from, but she claims it.)  Clicking through here will give you a video to watch – if you have the stomach for it.

No Delusion Edition could possibly be complete without Alex Jones, and, sure enough, RWW has a current Jones story.  And video (Yeeccch).

Hours before Lady Gaga’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, far-right radio host Alex Jones warned that the concert was going to be nothing but a Satanic ritual.

After linking her to “Pizzagate”—the conspiracy theory pushed by Jones and other conservatives that a Washington, D.C. restaurant hosts a devil-worshiping child sex ring connected to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats—Jones predicted that Lady Gaga would present herself as “the goddess of Satan” and “a twisted pile of crap” who wants Americans to bow to her demonic presence.

Jones encouraged people to boycott Lady Gaga and the Super Bowl and instead put their energy into helping him and Donald Trump, one of Jones’ fans and past guests, smash the satanic system that he says runs America.

Unbelieveable.

I can understand thinking Lady Gaga is a goddess, especially since "goddess" is exactly what "diva" means.  But Jones has his mythlogies mixed when he calls her a "satanic goddess," i.e., a goddess who works for Satan.  Satan, formerly Lucifer, is at best a (fallen) archangel.  Goddesses don't work for angels.  It's the other way around.  If you are going to peddle mythology, it seems to me, you should at least get it RIGHT.  Perhaps that comes from hanging out with Furies.  Oh, well.

Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone, I don't know whether even you, with your powers, have the ability to do anything with the people who listen to these nutcases, let alone the nutcases in chief.  And I wouldn't know how to assign you.  But if there is anything you can do, I hope you will.

The Furies and I will be back.

Cross posted to Care2 at http://www.care2.com/news/member/101612212/4036603