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As Long As It Takes Him When It Hits (Original Post) COL Mustard Oct 2020 OP
Omg North Shore Chicago Oct 2020 #1
Keep Sending Those Checks, Folks COL Mustard Oct 2020 #2
Then Pat needs more money Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #3
I keep getting lost... nebby70 Oct 2020 #4
This must be an appeal to the christian end of the world prophecy crowd. sop Oct 2020 #5
is that good or bad? samnsara Oct 2020 #6
This is nothing new for him. Let's revisit something from 1991... JHB Oct 2020 #7
Wait...vote Biden--we live OR vote evil#45-- we die..hmm, what shall I do? RestoreAmerica2020 Oct 2020 #8

nebby70

(471 posts)
4. I keep getting lost...
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 06:41 AM
Oct 2020

...wouldn't the threat be if he DIDN'T win?
How does this work...
All those years in Sunday School never talked about this stuff...

JHB

(37,158 posts)
7. This is nothing new for him. Let's revisit something from 1991...
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 07:06 AM
Oct 2020

A post of mine from 2013:

I was cleaning out some old papers and found some notes I'd jotted down while watching Pat Robertson on his 700 Club show (back then I'd occasionally monitor Robertson and other politically active RW religious figures**cough**nuts**cough**)

The date on it is 2 Jan 1991, so just over 22 years ago. At the time it was halfway through Poppy Bush's presidency, 5 months after Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait, and a little over 2 weeks before "Operation Desert Storm" (i.e., while military assets were still being moved into place).

Pat "special link" Robertson's predictions and comments:
- Short war with Iraq
-low interest rates, prime rate to 7%, stocks plummet
-by September, vibrant stock market out on a limb
-Bush reelected
-collapse in '93
-God is holding off disaster so that evangelicals can get the job done
-people of God support CBN (Robertson's cable network-JHB), high increase in donations
-if we leave Saddam, we must garrison Saudi Arabia indefinitely. Must attack Saddam or he will ___(must have dropped the word that followed-JHB). We Are Americans and must act like Americans, not back down to some tin pot dictator

Considering the lack of opposition from the then-nearly-collapsing Soviets, the short war wasn't all that tough to predict, though I think he had in mind weeks not the "100 hour war" that resulted (as long as you don't count our presence in Iraq for the next 10 years). I haven't looked up how the interest rates, prime rate, and stock market fared. I think his "special link" glitched on the '92 election, and gee, somehow we didn't collapse in '93. As for the rest, the only rational response is to point at him and laugh one's fool head off.

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