Turns out the Trump-maga and Mao-cultural revolution connection is actually a real thing

[howlee101]

22 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Ad hominem garbage is all you've got.

Pot, meet kettle

[howlee101]

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Sure thing.

Too bad he has currently blessed us with the worst president in American history.

 

The worst President lost in Nov 2024 🤨.  Actually, Biden lost before that when the coup d'etat of the DNC ousted him for the brain dead candidate.

[howlee101]

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Personally I dont. I just see your name and know it will either be some unhinged anti Trump or anti American rant

IMO, he has a self-aggrandizing attitude trying to atop of the leaderboard for most posts for the day 🤣

[Mike_Hunt]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I have plenty of news sources. I don't include Fox and Truth Social, they cater to the mentally impaired.

 

Why do you post this garbage?  

[Cameroni]

Trump secures $600 billion investment commitment from Saudi Arabia

 

https://www.newsweek.com/donal-trump-administration-news-middle-east-live-updates-2071496

 

600 billion! 

 

That's 50% more than China makes off of the US in exports.

 

How does Trump pull these deals off???

[Magictoad]

 

Nonsense.

Chairman Mao starved 30 million people to death. On top of the thirty million starved to death deliberately millions of others were worked to death.

Mao was a monster Trump is not- Trump is still a hero to many people. Mao is reviled. Don't confuse the two because Trump has upset you and your friends.

Millions of people voted for Trump instead of Biden. You know why but just can't accept it.

[ThreeCardMonte]

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

So many triggered maga cult members here that have nothing but personal insults.

So predictable!

 

Anyway, to discuss why I originally saw a connection between Maoist cultural revolution and the Maga Trump cult movement, in some ways matching what the CNN article says Chinese are thinking, but more of a smaller subset of that. So I am very fascinated hearing what the Chinese think.

 

So ...

 

This isn't about left vs. right.

Authoritarian regimes from both have many things in common.

Also CULT OF PERSONALITY regimes (both Trump, Mao, and many others in history) also have many things in common regardless of ideology (if any).

Arguably Trumpism isn't really an ideology -- it's about following the leader in whatever he says (which can change 180 degrees in minutes).

 

My main observations --

 

Both the Maoist cultural revolution and Trump maga cult greatly devalue the "elite" more specifically actually real expertise and relevant experience.

 

Witness the most disgusting most unqualified cabinet picks in American history by Trump. Almost all totally unqualified in the area they're supposed to be experts in to an absurd degree. The only qualification needed? Sucking up big time to the leader. Total loyalty to the leader.

 

Project 2025 and DOGE actions and plans to purge the government of actual experts in favor or loyalists with no qualifications. (As above.)

 

As I said in the OP, nobody is saying they are exactly the same. Of course they're not.

Trump is not sending doctors to work in the fields as the Mao big ball boys did. 

 

But I'm convinced the parallels between these two movements are really real and really there. History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes.

 

Now I will put on my flak jacket for the barage of mindless insults from the maga cult members here, who are very loud, and who clearly are very much against free speech except if it's Trump worship speech.

“personal insults.”

 

Pot, Kettle, Black 

 

Everything else you posted was jibberish.

 

 

[ThreeCardMonte]

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

Trump secures $600 billion investment commitment from Saudi Arabia

 

https://www.newsweek.com/donal-trump-administration-news-middle-east-live-updates-2071496

 

600 billion! 

 

That's 50% more than China makes off of the US in exports.

 

How does Trump pull these deals off???

Because he can!

 

You think Biden could pull it off?  Never.

[ThreeCardMonte]

1 hour ago, Mike_Hunt said:

 

Why do you post this garbage?  

Dementia .  Just like Biden.

[nauseus]

13 hours ago, Jingthing said:

My main sources are sites like The Bulwark. Dominated by former republican conservatives.

 

The Bulwark - YouTube

 

Fox and the even more maga tv channels are basically Trump state tv propaganda. You can't believe anything from such garbage sources.

 

The return of the pot....

 

 

“This is the political website we should all aspire to. Underpinned by a common commitment to democracy and social liberalism, Bulwark+ combines rage, wisdom, humour and community. For $100 (toy money, anyway) a year, you get A LOT.”

[nauseus]

12 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

 

Oh FFS....You suffer from brain rot. 

 

Or absence. 

[darbie-foos]

18 hours ago, Jingthing said:

No.

It's for patriotic Americans who don't want democracy and the U.S. constitution destroyed by the autocratic maga movement. 

I recall democrats tried to imprison Trump and like everything else they do, it all ends in failure, big-time. The fanny Fulton county RICO hoax likely is what factored in Trumps resounding election win knocking the outclassed dems straight into the septic tank where they current flounder mired in buffoonery excellence. Don't forget this epic photo of your beloved but persecuted MAGA leader extraordinare.

 

 

[darbie-foos]

must be difficult being a Democrat.

 

 

 

[Jingthing]

9 minutes ago, darbie-foos said:

I recall democrats tried to imprison Trump and like everything else they do, it all ends in failure, big-time. The fanny Fulton county RICO hoax likely is what factored in Trumps resounding election win knocking the outclassed dems straight into the septic tank where they current flounder mired in buffoonery excellence. Don't forget this epic photo of your beloved but persecuted MAGA leader extraordinare.

 

 

Maga cultists do love using the word HOAX when things are not that at all. 

Yes we know Trump won this time.

That is NOT the flippin' point here.

[darbie-foos]

11 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Maga cultists do love using the word HOAX when things are not that at all. 

Yes we know Trump won this time.

That is NOT the flippin' point here.

fanny was and still is the fraud perpetrating the RICO hoax, illegal political persecution that has since blown up in her fat face and she is more likely than not the one going to be jailed at some point. talk about an assault on democracy, coordinating with bidens WH to go after your political opponents. Fanny is duly representative of the corrupt vile scourge you so endorse.

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, darbie-foos said:

fanny was and still is the fraud perpetrating the RICO hoax, illegal political persecution that has since blown up in her fat face and she is more likely than not the one going to be jailed at some point. talk about an assault on democracy, coordinating with bidens WH to go after your political opponents. Fanny is duly representative of the corrupt vile scourge you so endorse.

Total garbage. 

[BLMFem]

1 hour ago, darbie-foos said:

must be difficult being a Democrat.

 

 

 

Again and again I'm struck by the intellectual prowess behind such astounding nuggets of comedic gold that are regularly served up by the American far right.

Bravo!

[chippendale]