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From a Daily Beast article titled "Donald Trump is the L.
Ron Hubbard of Politics" by James Kirchick:
Is Donald Trump the new George Wallace? Silvio Berlusconi?
Adolf Hitler?
Could be. But at least as much as a southern segregationist,
rich pervert turned politico, or genocidal fascist, Trump
resembles L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the pyramid-scheme-masquerading-as-religion
known as Scientology.
Consider: both men are (or, in Hubbard’s case, were)
narcissistic, autocratic, money-obsessed, pathological liars
and would-be sexual conquerors who built business empires
for the primary purpose of self-enrichment under glitz-drenched
brands maintained by fraud and advanced by uncompromising
litigiousness and occasional physical aggression against
critics.
Hubbard died in 1986, though perhaps only corporeally. He
claimed he was Cecil Rhodes in a previous life and today
may be inhabiting the soul of Donald Trump for all we know;
at the least the two men bear some resemblance.
Both are defined by compulsive acquisitiveness. “MAKE
MONEY. MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY,” Hubbard wrote
to underlings in an early Scientology “Governing Policy” document. “MAKE
OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MONEY.”
Read the rest here.
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Fun personal note: Starting October 10th until the 6th of
November my younger brother Mark and I will be the same
age. Yes, my dear Mother held out after my birth for a whole
two months before that look in Dad's eye took on Sauronian
proportions and nine months later Mark appeared, supplying
me with a constant companion right up until we both started
liking the same girls. Then things got kinda chippy.
We're
much better now.
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Yes, you're not imagining things. My server is offline on
too many occasions lately. The techs say they're doing their
best to exterminate the gremlins so all I can do is wait
and wait and...
wait.
Now if only I can do something about the server issues inside
my skull. <grin>
=Lefty=
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