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Doug Mastriano has 'special relationship' with a conspiracy-peddling 'prophetess' [1]
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Date: 2022-08-22
Lately, Mastriano has heavily promoted Julie Green, who heads Julie Green Ministries in Bettendorf, Iowa—the “fourth” city in the Quad Cities. Her “prophecies” are a toxic stew of conspiracy theories. For instance, in February, she claimed that Nancy Pelosi “loves to drink the little children’s blood,” proving that she’s “a true witch.” This is a common QAnon trope; QAnon followers frequently claim that elites try to extend their lives by drinking children’s blood.
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In April, she claimed that government muckety-mucks are performing “human sacrifices” to solidify their domination.
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She has also “prophesied” that a number of politicians are about to be executed for supposed treason. Not just Democrats, either. She called out Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who has been on Trumpworld’s shit list for some time for refusing to overturn Biden’s narrow victory in his state.
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She has also issued similar “prophecies” regarding Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Mitch McConnell, as well as Gov. Brian Kemp.
In June, Green told fellow “prophetess” Meri Crouley that she has a “special relationship” with Mastriano That relationship began as early as March 15, when she was invited to open a Mastriano campaign event with a prayer. Later that month, Mastriano shared a video prophecy from Green in which she declared that God was in the process of “cleansing” Pennsylvania of a “hornet’s nest of corruption.”
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By hitting the share button on this video, Mastriano was effectively saying that he believed himself to be the vessel to clean Pennsylvania.
By April, the “special relationship” had blossomed to the point that Mastriano invited Green to come to Patriots Arise, a QAnon/Christianist conference in Gettysburg, which is in Mastriano’s state senate district. Mastriano had heard about a “prophecy” Green had “received” a month earlier declaring that God had chosen him “for such a time as this” in order to “get to the truth in election integrity” and push for “the great steal to be overturned.” That conference, which included a number of other Republican luminaries such as Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis and Trump Twitter sockpuppet Liz Harrington, was organized by fellow QNut prophets Allen and Francine Fosdick, and was chock full of QAnon crazy.
Listening to Green, I could have sworn I was listening to Mark Taylor, the so-called “firefighter prophet” who claimed God had told him Trump would become president. Never mind that he received this “word” in 2011—and that any competent reading showed that he was foretelling Trump defeating Obama in 2012. For a time, Taylor was one of the big things in the Trumpvangelical world. He used that fame to spew QAnon crazy and other conspiracy theories. Indeed, QAnon was the least batshit thing he espoused. For instance, he claimed that the reason so many people despised Trump was that the Illuminati were fiddling with our DNA.
And now, a woman who is basically Taylor in a skirt has the ear of the man who wants to be governor of our fifth-largest state, with 19 electoral votes. This is yet more proof that Mastriano has no intention of being governor for all of Pennsylvania. The Keystone State deserves better—and fortunately, they have a chance to get better with the Democratic nominee, state attorney general Josh Shapiro. Send him some love here.
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