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In reply to the discussion: Ann Coulter: Best Thing Trump Could Do for America Is 'Die' [View all]qwlauren35
(6,309 posts)Supposedly good and evil are opposites, and if good people can exist, then evil people can exist. Most people are not 100% good. Because humans are amazingly complicated creatures. So, if there is no 100% good person, mortal, then there is no 100% evil person. Mortal. For example, Trump may love his sons. We won't discuss his daughter...
Me personally, I would love to see him die. And it's EXTREMELY not Buddhist of me. Our creed is to do no harm, and therefore say no harm, think no harm. Frighteningly strict, and probably just something to aspire to.
But I don't think Jesus would want him to die. The Buddha would not want him to die. They would want him redeemed.
I think Christianity is not the answer to evil like Trump. In the Jewish faith, in the Muslim faith, there would be a path to his death. Those two religions accept war, and their god killed. It would be reasonable to pray that God would strike Trump dead with thunder and lightning, showing His Will.
There are a lot of clergy right now who are challenged by the fact that their Christian congregants are turning away from the Beatitudes, suggesting that they are not appropriate for the time.
If I were to turn to my Buddhist faith, I would chant that the right thing happen with regards to Trump (and the MAGAts, the impotent GOP in the House, and the entire crisis of our democracy), whatever that is, and accept that it is not up to me to determine what that is. It's just too big. For if I were to suggest that I had the insight, power, wisdom, omnipotence, foresight to recognize exactly what must happen and how it must happen, then I would have to be a god.
So. What if Trump dying isn't the best thing for America?
BTW, my fantasy - not my prayer - is that he is tortured into a public confession. On television, on Fox News, on Truth Social, on X and every conservative outlet. And the form of torture, a la George Orwell, would be to cage his private parts so that he can't move and encase them with hungry rats who gnaw at his genitals. I would want him to confess to his inability to manage his money. To the rape of E Jean Carroll. To pedophilia with Jeffrey Epstein. To knowing that he lost the election, but thinking that money and charisma, and repeating lies over and over would convince people to change the outcome, in any way possible, knowing that he had a group of supporters that were willing to believe anything he said. I would want him to confess to running for election just to best Barack Obama, a ni**er from a poor family who didn't deserve to be president, a man who had laughed at him in front of the entire media community and all over social media, after he couldn't get enough people to believe that Obama wasn't a natural born citizen, and was actually born in Africa (if you say it enough...) I would want him to confess that he went out of his way to make being president as profitable as possible, knowing that he was not as wealthy as he pretended to be, and going along with religious conservatives because it didn't hurt him, even though he didn't believe in any of the tenets of Christianity at all, and in fact, thought Christianity was pure bullshit for losers who don't have the balls to take what they want. And I want him to confess that he thinks that his followers are stupid, ignorant, asshole losers who can't even spot a scam when it looks them in the face. That he has nothing but contempt for them, and thinks the only thing they are good for is to stroke his ego and pay his legal bills.
And then, let him live, crushed and pathetic, with no genitals, no following, no money, the laughingstock of the entire media community.
Better than death.