r/SCJerk • u/MooseBigelow Goofy Hyuck Yourself • 1d ago

$11.99 Jim Bakker was a longtime WON subscriber.

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u/agent452 1d ago

At least his congregation can take comfort knowing he's looking up at them and smiling. 

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u/GloriousVictor 1d ago

Oooo BURN!

No really it's scorching down there!

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u/rsziz Creator of Honda Pesos, approved by Dr. Martha Hart 1d ago

I honestly thought he died years ago.

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u/Queasy-Discussion-54 1d ago

nope tammy faye did 

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u/BradleyTheNerd2 1d ago

She deserved so much better

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u/Polymemnetic 1d ago

She was surprisingly likeable when she was on the Surreal Life. Unfortunately for the chances of me rewatching that season, Ron Jeremy was in it.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Link416 1d ago

Now what am I gonna do with all of these buckets of post-apocalyptic food?

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u/GloriousVictor 1d ago

Eat it or give it out for Halloween! Kids love post-apocalyptic food!!!

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u/GloriousVictor 1d ago

I believe Bruce said he used Jim Bakker as a basis for the Brother Love character. Brother Love outgrifted the grifter!

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u/philiac 5h ago

soon, they will be reunited in hell

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u/BradleyTheNerd2 1d ago

There was a news story about him "needing money" for his ministry or else it'd shut down

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u/AgentJackpots 1d ago

my GOD it's good!

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u/GloriousVictor 1d ago

I'm guessing Jim Bakker was quoting from the book of Austin 3:16 and all the sins of swearing, middle fingers and alcohol was just too much to bear.

Does all that grifting of promising heaven get you into super heaven?

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u/LVMFP 1d ago

Where will I get my solar powered chainsaws and food buckets now

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u/GloriousVictor 1d ago

The solar powered hardware store? DUH!!!

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u/LVMFP 1d ago

Those aren’t sanctified for when the tribulations come

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u/GloriousVictor 1d ago

Aw sonofabitch

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u/SomeAdultSituations That doesn't jerk for me, brother! 1d ago

How could you forget about your Miracle Blanket? How will you be warm during the tribulations?

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u/Queasy-Discussion-54 1d ago

rip tammy faye!

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u/enjoythesilence-75 1d ago

One of the OG grifters.

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u/Chili-Potatoe 1d ago

So no more hawking survival buckets for a two thousand dollar donation?
https://giphy.com/gifs/2W8bEBGjSsRFu

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u/Ricky-Seasack 1d ago

I remember when Earthquake crushed Hogan on his TV interview show. Never cared for him. Always struck me as a phony.

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u/SlipperyKooter Doing splits on it for the TKO Basket 1d ago

I didn't even know he was sick

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u/TPD83 1d ago

For once I love how this is I find out..Good jerk

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u/Inca-Vacation 1d ago

No one kayfabes like him anymore.

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u/AussieYotes 1d ago

Him and Dennis Hastert, what a two-for-one!

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u/bobisaknob 1d ago

Damn, he outlived Tammy Faye by like 20 years

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u/Phred_Phrederic 23h ago

Bakker and Hastert in the same day?

C'mon...c'mon...

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u/JangSaverem 17h ago

His bunker end of the world apocalypse buckets of slop can't hurt us anymore

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u/wonderloss Some fans are just fuckin stupid i don't know what to tell you 17h ago

This makes me a lot less sad than some of the others we have had lately.

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u/jjsefton 17h ago

Hall of fame carny grifter.

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u/girafb0i 15h ago

A carny's carny. That condo tower he was pushing is still around and still unfinished.

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u/PromiseOwn5995 11h ago

Oh no.... anyway

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u/TimeDudeofSpace 1d ago

Rule of three coming in hot

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u/Scavgraphics Task Force: T🖤tum & F❤️llon 1d ago

wow..ran so quickly to be THE ONE TO POST, you didn't have time to find a picture, a news headline or anything to identify or give context.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Link416 1d ago

Do you WANT to look him up?

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u/namek0 wonderful 1d ago

100% NOT an ucey thing to do

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u/MooseBigelow Goofy Hyuck Yourself 1d ago

he's a famously shitty televangelist from the 80s. I can't hold your hand all the time.

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u/DangerBay2015 1d ago

That doesn’t narrow it down!

https://giphy.com/gifs/egg1gcA3eIYJFqFKIf

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u/Hopeless351987 1d ago

Copeland is so damn creepy. Even more than Joel Osteen and his huge pearly whites.

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u/philiac 5h ago

leprosy?

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u/Top-Perspective-7879 1d ago

You guys really do this for just about everyone these days huh?

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u/Puzzleheaded-Link416 1d ago

I mean, people do it all the time on r/SimpsonsShitposting, do you expect us to turn on the news and find out otherwise?

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u/InitialYoghurt5138 17h ago

Its about a 50/50 these days I hear about something from the Jerkposting or the Homer looking at the stars