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Post by maya55555 on May 25, 2019 23:20:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2019 10:07:25 GMT
He is actually selling 'magic beans' 😅
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Post by maya55555 on May 26, 2019 22:10:56 GMT
Those too!?
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Post by Rodney Farber on May 29, 2019 15:06:33 GMT
I didn't watch the video but I can't muster much outrage over things like this. People can spend their money on whatever they want. They can flush it or burn it or use it as wallpaper, too. I don't really care. Ms Kilcher; While I agree that people are free to spend their money any way they want, Peter Popoff is a fraud. He prays upon the desperate hopes of his followers. I compare him to a used car salesman who fails to disclose that he has turned back the odometer 80 thousand miles while claiming that the car was a rental in Florida when it was really driven by a hod-rod teenager in Maine who used the car to drag race on salt ridden roads. Peter Popoff was exposed as a fraud in 1985 on the Tonight Show. The divine messages he was receiving were really radio transmissions to his earpiece that his wife was relaying from prayer cards. He (and many other televangelists) should be given the Laverne and Shirley treatment. (shot before a live audience)
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Post by amyghost on May 29, 2019 15:24:14 GMT
Popoff's a tool, but no more of a tool than any of these other religious hucksters. I can turn on my tv late night any night, and watch some evangelical carny barker hustling the (gullible) faithful into coughing up 'seed money' to send in so Jeezy will work a miracle in their unhappy lives. They normally pass the televised begging bowl for about fifty bucks, but a couple of nights ago one of these assclowns was actually asking for 'seed' donations of a thousand dollars! You know good and well that the majority of their target audience likely doesn't see a thousand dollars in one place too many times throughout the course of a year; and what makes this even more utterly reprehensible is the fact that at least a fair number of these poor delusionals will break themselves trying to round up that 'seed' which is supposed to pay off in big heavenly dividends, but for some literally god-knows-what reason never does. People should be able to sue these SOB's for false claims--if you send in money to a tv evangelist who promises you'll be rolling in earthly/material blessings as a result, and then you aren't--or are maybe even doing worse afterwards--you should be able to litigate against them for false advertising. Many would say in response to this that 'there's no Constitutional amendment protecting people from their own stupidity', but there should damn well be some that protect the vulnerable and ignorant from being preyed on by those who make a living by exploiting that vulnerability and ignorance. A few well-aimed and successful lawsuits in this arena might just work some 'miracles' of their own.
It's grotesque that Popoff chooses to target this particular demographic, but every one of these losers has their own particular niche market of the desperate, impoverished (on multiple levels) and feckless that they milk like so many willing bovines.
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