He wants too much. Imagine living the life of luxury he has lived, one with no real moral boundaries, and then lamenting you also don’t get another eternal life on top of it. Haven’t you had enough? Why do you deserve any more than what you’ve already had?
It’s not like Saint Peter came down to let him know. I think he is saying that he doesn’t deserve to get into Heaven (and hence won’t), and never will, which is kind of an unnerving thing to say because it suggests effectively a commitment to actions that he himself regards as evil.
While making a bumbling public spectacle of it, Trump is in real time grappling with the theological problem of all well off Christians: They have counted their blessings in this world. It’s why they snap like a rubber band when you point that out. It’s a sore spot for them. So they’re always quick to make a big to-do over their personal persecutions and privations. They all got a story about how they were poor once. Or faced “reverse racism” or whatever token fucking moment in their internal hagiography. A time they lost or gave something up that could somehow justify all the taking they’ve done since.
But the fundamental problem is that that’s still just kicking the can down the road. Quantity does have a quality of its own: as they approach death the aggregate of their lifetime of acquisitions will weigh heavily against the token memory of eating cold chili out of a can for week back in 1972 - an experience of poverty not since repeated in 50 years.
So yeah, it fuckin’ chafes em right in a sore spot. For Trump the contradictions are even more inflamed because he doesn’t remember the misery chili or having a car repoed. He’s always been rich. He never had to fib about past poverty. Probably because being a Christian wasn’t part of his facade until like 9 years ago. Also because he doesn’t really have that same religion-infused sore spot he’s just afraid of death taking away his luxury.
This is also why they tried sinking AOC over her not coming from real enough poverty because she got like grants for college and only bartended weekends or some fucking poverty Olympics BS. Because it pokes that sore spot.
He wants too much. Imagine living the life of luxury he has lived, one with no real moral boundaries, and then lamenting you also don’t get another eternal life on top of it. Haven’t you had enough? Why do you deserve any more than what you’ve already had?
It’s not like Saint Peter came down to let him know. I think he is saying that he doesn’t deserve to get into Heaven (and hence won’t), and never will, which is kind of an unnerving thing to say because it suggests effectively a commitment to actions that he himself regards as evil.
While making a bumbling public spectacle of it, Trump is in real time grappling with the theological problem of all well off Christians: They have counted their blessings in this world. It’s why they snap like a rubber band when you point that out. It’s a sore spot for them. So they’re always quick to make a big to-do over their personal persecutions and privations. They all got a story about how they were poor once. Or faced “reverse racism” or whatever token fucking moment in their internal hagiography. A time they lost or gave something up that could somehow justify all the taking they’ve done since.
But the fundamental problem is that that’s still just kicking the can down the road. Quantity does have a quality of its own: as they approach death the aggregate of their lifetime of acquisitions will weigh heavily against the token memory of eating cold chili out of a can for week back in 1972 - an experience of poverty not since repeated in 50 years.
So yeah, it fuckin’ chafes em right in a sore spot. For Trump the contradictions are even more inflamed because he doesn’t remember the misery chili or having a car repoed. He’s always been rich. He never had to fib about past poverty. Probably because being a Christian wasn’t part of his facade until like 9 years ago. Also because he doesn’t really have that same religion-infused sore spot he’s just afraid of death taking away his luxury.
This is also why they tried sinking AOC over her not coming from real enough poverty because she got like grants for college and only bartended weekends or some fucking poverty Olympics BS. Because it pokes that sore spot.