"A junkie is always a junkie. It never ends. Even after your body can no longer take junk you will still be a junkie. If you pick religion or exercise or drug store meds you will still be a junkie. This is one thing all junkies know."
From my observation, addicts are always gonna be addicts. They may swap out drugs for Jesus, or alcohol for exercise, or crack for MAGA, but they will always have that addictive personality that makes them go off the walls about something.
Street guy preaching about "being saved":
"Once, I was all messed up on drugs. Then I got Saved. Now I'm all messed up on The Lord!" - Cheech & Chong skit
This is actually not true. A lot of people who get into conspiracies use them as an addiction replacement. For whatever strange reason: moral panics, conspiracy rabbit holes, and outrage cycles satisfy a lot of the same things that an addiction to substances does.
Once you get to that level of money and power my guess is most of them have few real checks on their autonomy so down the drug rabbit hole they go. Still shocked Trump doesn't drink.
Become crazier? The god stuff suggests the potential was already there, waiting to be powered up several notches by survivorship bias and a mythical mindset.
Actually, the Pillows are sweet. I got two before Lindell got really weird, years ago. They are really comfy, last forever, throw them in the washer and they look and feel new. I feel guilty for liking them so much....
Lindell is a textbook addictive personality. He transfers his addictions from drugs, to booze, to Jesus, to conspiracies. But he's still an addict and the same reckless, self-destructive impulses still control his actions.
Crackheads and tweakers ALWAYS replace the drugs with another crutch. Usually fake strip mall white christianity mixed with judging everyone else they meet, because god likes them and nobody else now obviously.
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Less physically debilitating but not entirely healthy
Sounds about right.
Fuck off you fucking shitbag.
Lenny Bruce.
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"Once, I was all messed up on drugs. Then I got Saved. Now I'm all messed up on The Lord!" - Cheech & Chong skit
They drink beer all day to keep straight
But when they stop and the Residual paint chemicals take over
Watch out
Angry and confused
He’s addicted to Jeebus.
JC is just a means to the Evangelical $$$$
Crackheads and tweakers ALWAYS replace the drugs with another crutch. Usually fake strip mall white christianity mixed with judging everyone else they meet, because god likes them and nobody else now obviously.
This one just sold a bunch of shitty pillows too.
Lindell’s often doing a very good portrayal of a dry drunk—not that I’m one to cast aspersions or judge.