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A Cult is a Cult is a Cult

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A cult is a cult is a cult.

 

Cult members lack the self-awareness to know they’re cult members, as “belonging” is what finally gives their otherwise mediocre to meaningless lives some sense of purpose. This is true whether it’s Hare Krishna, Rev Moon, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump. Cultists cannot see they’re cultists, nor do they want to, because finally getting some sense of purpose is too valuable to their insecure and fragile egos to dismiss.

 

Cult leaders can do no wrong. Everything they do is either a major triumph, like “nothing anyone has ever seen before”, or it’s a way to attack their enemies, indicating just how clever the cult leader is. The cult leader also becomes fantastical, having traits and accomplishments attributed to him that have no connection to reality. Anyone who in any way does not stand in absolute awe of their cult leader is a blasphemer or a heretic, or suffers from some fantasized “syndrome”. Cults are good at covering all the bases, too: you’re with them, or you are the enemy. They allow no middle ground.

 

MAGA is obviously a cult and Trump a cult leader.  MAGA and Trump check all the boxes of cultism. Everything about him is exaggerated and made almost mythic. He encourages that myth himself by his constant use of superlatives when discussing himself, which he does ad nauseum. “Everybody said it couldn’t be done”. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it.” “Many people are saying best ever.”  “Greatest economy ever”. “I alone can fix it.” “I’ll be releasing---in two weeks---the best ever plan.” “I’m like…really really smart”. “I’m a stable genius”.

 

Similarly, when going after critics, Trump resorts to using negative superlatives. “Worst ever”. “American carnage.” “Loser”. “Low IQ. “Third rate”. “Worst ratings”. “Nobody has any respect for….” “The failing [XYZ]”.

 

Part of being a cult leader, and maintaining it, is allowing no one else to share the stage. For cult leaders, adoration is a finite entity, so no one else is allowed to have any. Be involved in a “peace deal”---even if you don’t know which sides are making peace---and “I did it”. So insistent are cult leaders in keeping all the adoration coming their way, they’ll steal valor from anyone who has gained even a hint of praise. Trump did this when giving a supposed eulogy at a medal ceremony for Charlie Kirk, by boasting about how Trump avoided getting hit by a bullet because he turned quickly. “If only Charlie could be like me.” Such a statement also is an attempt to solidify Trump’s status as something between being a “chosen” one and actually being semi-divine himself.

 

Trump’s staff is in on the deification. They repeatedly release fanciful images of Trump being everything he is not, never was, nor ever could be. Trump himself began that practice, something his cult sucked up, when he issued NFTs portraying himself as everything from a fighter pilot to an astronaut. That these silly things sold is absolute proof of cult status. The White House handlers have added to this. They’ve released fake images of him as buff, as some sort of warrior, as a superhero, even as a King (which was the reason behind the protest movement being called “No Kings”. Trump and his staff provided the impetus.)  Of course he’s just a fat old man suffering cognitive and physical decline.

 

The reality is that Trump is pure fabrication, owing his entire later life to the fantasy created by Mark Burnett, who took a failed businessman, who lived solely off of his father’s wealth and co-signed loans, and made him into a celebrity good enough to fool the unsophisticated and weak-minded, which is to say the kind of people susceptible to becoming cult members.

 

Some credit must be given to Trump for seeing what Burnett had done for him---though he would never give Burnett public credit---and parlaying that into his political career. Trump had---at least when he was still in possession of his cognitive facilities---an innate awareness of whom he could fool and how to fool them. He has said himself two things that indicate both this awareness and what he really thinks of his cult (whose value is primarily how it gives him power, gives him endless opportunities to grift, while also feeding his woefully fragile and insecure ego.)

 

“I love the poorly educated” (2016)

 

“Smart people don’t like me”. (2025)

 

Trump might still be aware enough to know he really doesn't have genuine support from the most visible members of the billionaire class, but his power gives Trump a hook into them. Some want tax cuts, some want favorable treatment by the postal system, some want government contracts, and at least one (Zuckerberg) wants to stay out of jail, something with which Trump threatened him when he blocked Trump's Facebook account. These guys, however, blow with the wind, and would abandon Trump if a Democrat took power and had authority. Remember how quickly Musk went from "love" to threatening information about Epstein. Those guys----Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.---are not actual members of the cult, just opportunists. They never drank the Kool Aid. They're successful people, not losers trying to live vicariously through a cult leader.

 

Trump also must be given credit for understanding the mood among many members of society, people who were being left behind by technological change and the obviation of labor. He gave these people hope, despite having no real solution to help them, but with false hope being better than no hope at all, Trump’s message resonated. Of course he did not deliver, not in his first term and obviously not yet in his second term, but dreams die hard. His first term growth, even before Covid hit, was in the bottom 30% of all Quarters since the end of WWII, and his new term is seeing declines in growth and employment, coupled with increases in inflation.

 

One final credit Trump must be given is that in conjunction with false hope, he also gave people excuses for their lack of success, as well as targets to blame. That is a tactic used by all cult leaders and autocrats since time immemorial, and Trump knows this innately. Trump tossed out various bogeymen and waited to see which resonated. He’s used Moslems, Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and “liberals” as the causes of why so many of Trump’s followers are failing to keep up. Trump tapped in to latent racism and sexism, giving racists and misogynists the all clear, knowing it would attract the bigoted in US society. Racists and bigots still have the right to vote, so Trump knew not to alienate a demographic others would not want. Trump welcomed the endorsement of KKK boss David Duke, though when asked claimed he didn’t know who Duke was. Trump entertained Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at a private Mar-a-Lago dinner, solidifying the antisemite vote. Trump can claim he didn’t know Fuentes’ beliefs, but only the hopelessly naïve would buy that lie, as certainly Trump has staff who would inform him of such things, weighing the potential cost vs the gains of attracting a large and hateful demographic, the same way Trump lent credence to QAnon fantasies, thereby securing them, too. Incels were a natural for Trump, as guys with no game need an excuse and Trump's contempt for women ("I can grab them by the pussy") appeals to male losers.

 

Trump barely disguises his own calls to hate, calling all immigrants “rapists and murderers”, and claiming most anyone who is not a white male is in her position because of “DEI” programs. He has stepped up these calls for hate, beyond Hispanics or Blacks or Moslems, and now includes all Democrats and liberals, who he calls “domestic enemies” or “the enemy within”.

 

The result? False hope works. Calls to hate work. Both keep the cult tight on their leash.

 

Though his popularity is in decline (hitting a new Approval low of 37% and a Disapproval rating of 61%), Trump can keep some of his cult by meeting at least one of their needs. Trump cannot create economic growth nor job growth, and he is failing on the inflation front. He can, however, appeal to the cult’s racism by sending his masked, badgeless stormtroopers after female garment workers or 73-year old South Asian grandmothers. Trump has also learned he can soften his language at times, so instead of calling the seized people “gang members” or “rapists and murderers”, he can simply call them “illegals” and cater to the racist tropes of his cult indirectly. Everyone can pretend ICE is all about law and order, when clearly it’s all about racism.

 

If Trump really wanted to stem the flow of undocumented workers coming across the border (60%) or on visa overstay (40%), he would send ICE after the business owners who hire them. The owners are lawbreakers, too, but get a free pass, as many are members of the Donor Class. If demand dried up, few migrants would bother to try crossing the border. Of course that would snare white males, and that might alienate his base, so he prefers to focus on the symptom, not the cause….go after the people who are “different”.

 

As Trump’s mental acuity and cognition deteriorate, as clearly both are doing now, his handlers become much more important. They have to parse his bizarre statements, almost as if he's Chance the Gardener in "Being There". When they cannot make sense of them, they either ignore them or write them off as jokes or trolls aimed at critics. His handlers also have to excuse his most egregious absurdities, all the while continuing to build and rebuild/repair the fantasy of Trump being what he is not.

 

This parsing and redefining has never been more clear than in the last two or three months. Trump is given credit for stopping conflicts in which his actions played no role or next to no role. He himself is taking credit for stopping wars that didn’t exist, and he cannot keep straight the conflicts his handlers are giving him credit for halting. Trump has also simply made up, no doubt owing to his accelerating cognitive decline, victories in which he had absolutely no part.

 

We have heard Trump recently claim of stopping the largest genocide in human history (sic), that of Rwanda in 1994. “Seven million dead….machetes machetes everywhere, but I stopped that.” We have heard Trump take credit for stopping a “terrible” conflict between a place he called Aberbaijiban and Albania. He took credit for stopping a war between Cambodia and Armenia. (I wonder if Marco Rubio or Witkoff will one day step up to take credit for what they now still gift to Trump, as both might vie for the role of MAGA, Jr., and hope to pick up his banner.)

 

Obviously, Trump did not stop what never existed, and he had no hand in anything whose names he cannot even remember, but his handlers need to keep foisting credit upon the cult leader, because it’s the handlers who stand to benefit by retaining power and the ability to self-deal. There isn’t an icon ready to replace the mentally and physically failing Trump, and the power and money spigot gets shut off if Trump is gone. Hence, they prop him up and give him credit for things he cannot even remember.

 

Both the handlers and some of the cult members sense that the end is near. Trump and his team have gotten away with a lot, but his appeal is fading. His approval rating is tumbling. The economy is in decline, and despite the farcical claims to the contrary, is performing well below what it was when he took office. Growth is slower, if not now negative. Inflation is higher than the day he took office. Job growth has plunged. AI exuberance has kept the equity market on the same path it was on under his predecessor, but that has the smell of early 2000 and Dot.Com. A plus for Trump is that the government shutdown has kept both GDP and job numbers invisible, although private sector projections suggest significant decline.

 

No clearer was the decline in cult appeal than during last weekend’s “No Kings” rally, which saw the largest single day, peaceful, 1st Amendment right protest in the history of the United States, with over 7 million Americans from all walks of life taking to the streets against Trump and MAGA. The cult has tried hard to downplay this massive public display, making up lies of who was behind it, but they failed. It wasn’t antifa. It wasn’t “hate America”, but rather love of the ideals upon which America was founded, including the precious rights of free speech, a free press and freedom of assembly to address grievances. It wasn’t funded by the antisemite’s favorite bogeyman, George Soros. It was grass roots, and in every State of the Union, Blue and Red.

 

Those protests scared the bejesus out of MAGA. Trying to play, as Trump and his handlers do, to their unsophisticated and forlorn cult members, Trump reposted an AI video of him as a king piloting a bomber and spewing diarrhea over the peaceful protestors, a metaphor for Trump defecating on the US Constitution.

 

Cult members, who would never accept such tastelessness and childishness from a politician such as Obama, loved the idiocy and justified it by saying it was a joke or a way to troll the critics. Of course it was nothing of the sort, but cultists are too deep in the fever swamps to even begin to see reality.

 

Like all cults and temporary absurdities or outrages in human behavior, the MAGA cult, too, will end. It’s all a function of Trump and the appeal he has to the forlorn. His mental and physical decline seems to be accelerating, so it’s not out of line to think Trump will no longer be around in a year’s time. There is no one to replace him, so the cult will die. It may sputter for a while as others try to salvage what’s left of it or jockey for leadership, and cult members will try to hold on to what finally gave them a reason to be, but die it will, just as all cults---from Jim Jones to Hitler---eventually died and their sins were laid bare for all to see.

 

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The modern left/wokism movement is a cult.

 

They believe sex is fluid ie a man can suddenly become a woman by just thinking they are one.

 

They believe applying law without prejudice or favor is unfair.

 

They believe hiring the most qualified and suitable candidate for a position is racist.

 

They believe an open border is a secure border.

 

They believe in forcefully jabbing healthy people with experimental muck equals my body my choice.

 

They trot out silly narratives such as everyone is equal under the law and then lose their minds when it spectacularly backfires.

 

They believe censoring facts equals freedom of speech.

 

If it looks like a cult, walks like a cult and quacks like a cult......it US a cult.

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Maybe break the pills in half next time.

5 hours ago, Wingate said:

This is true whether it’s Hare Krishna, Rev Moon, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump.

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For forks sake Walker88, You had stopped those long extremely boring manifestos for awhile now. You must have had a relapse. Seek help immediately.

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Lets call it the MAGA 312 Cult 47th edition cult where there are no democrat men getting pregnant and breastfeeding, no child sex mutilations, no drag queen hours in primary schools, no woke DEI freaks being freaks, NO tampons in boys washrooms etc.

 

The 312 Cult has ~77M members strong.  (ask Kamala)

 

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5 hours ago, Wingate said:

MAGA is obviously a cult and Trump a cult leader.  MAGA and Trump check all the boxes of cultism. Everything about him is exaggerated and made almost mythic. He encourages that myth himself by his constant use of superlatives when discussing himself, which he does ad nauseum. “Everybody said it couldn’t be done”. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it.” “Many people are saying best ever.”  “Greatest economy ever”. “I alone can fix it.” “I’ll be releasing---in two weeks---the best ever plan.” “I’m like…really really smart”. “I’m a stable genius”.

 

Don't know about all that. Cult leaders dig in when threatened. Donnie J done skeddadled every time he faced up against someone meaner than he is.

i was kinda hoping to start a cult around "thunderbolt of flaming wisdom"

when i went to thailand, but buddhists turned out to be more materialistic 

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Seems the Royals across the pond love a good cult too.

 

 

 

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Maybe the "cult" is welcome, even loved in France.

 

 

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11 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

For forks sake Walker88, You had stopped those long extremely boring manifestos for awhile now. You must have had a relapse. Seek help immediately.

 

Exactly, it's not even a post.

It's a manifesto.

Looks like this guy is trying to start his own cult. 

17 hours ago, Wingate said:

MAGA is obviously a cult and Trump a cult leader.  MAGA and Trump check all the boxes of cultism. Everything about him is exaggerated and made almost mythic. He encourages that myth himself by his constant use of superlatives when discussing himself, which he does ad nauseum. “Everybody said it couldn’t be done”. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it.” “Many people are saying best ever.”  “Greatest economy ever”. “I alone can fix it.” “I’ll be releasing---in two weeks---the best ever plan.” “I’m like…really really smart”. “I’m a stable genius”.

 

Nah, just because he toots his own horn doesn't make him a cult leader.

 

Cult leaders make people do things that are ultimately not in their best interest or helping their lives. 

Like donating all their assets to the commune or whatever stupid crap cult followers are doing these days. 

 

Everyone is just watching Trump from the sidelines. 

 

 

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What do you think about the new dietary guidelines by RFK Jr, Walker88?

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6 hours ago, Wingate said:

A cult is a cult is a cult.

 

Cult members lack the self-awareness to know they’re cult members, as “belonging” is what finally gives their otherwise mediocre to meaningless lives some sense of purpose. This is true whether it’s Hare Krishna, Rev Moon, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump. Cultists cannot see they’re cultists, nor do they want to, because finally getting some sense of purpose is too valuable to their insecure and fragile egos to dismiss.

 

Cult leaders can do no wrong. Everything they do is either a major triumph, like “nothing anyone has ever seen before”, or it’s a way to attack their enemies, indicating just how clever the cult leader is. The cult leader also becomes fantastical, having traits and accomplishments attributed to him that have no connection to reality. Anyone who in any way does not stand in absolute awe of their cult leader is a blasphemer or a heretic, or suffers from some fantasized “syndrome”. Cults are good at covering all the bases, too: you’re with them, or you are the enemy. They allow no middle ground.

 

MAGA is obviously a cult and Trump a cult leader.  MAGA and Trump check all the boxes of cultism. Everything about him is exaggerated and made almost mythic. He encourages that myth himself by his constant use of superlatives when discussing himself, which he does ad nauseum. “Everybody said it couldn’t be done”. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it.” “Many people are saying best ever.”  “Greatest economy ever”. “I alone can fix it.” “I’ll be releasing---in two weeks---the best ever plan.” “I’m like…really really smart”. “I’m a stable genius”.

 

Similarly, when going after critics, Trump resorts to using negative superlatives. “Worst ever”. “American carnage.” “Loser”. “Low IQ. “Third rate”. “Worst ratings”. “Nobody has any respect for….” “The failing [XYZ]”.

 

Part of being a cult leader, and maintaining it, is allowing no one else to share the stage. For cult leaders, adoration is a finite entity, so no one else is allowed to have any. Be involved in a “peace deal”---even if you don’t know which sides are making peace---and “I did it”. So insistent are cult leaders in keeping all the adoration coming their way, they’ll steal valor from anyone who has gained even a hint of praise. Trump did this when giving a supposed eulogy at a medal ceremony for Charlie Kirk, by boasting about how Trump avoided getting hit by a bullet because he turned quickly. “If only Charlie could be like me.” Such a statement also is an attempt to solidify Trump’s status as something between being a “chosen” one and actually being semi-divine himself.

 

Trump’s staff is in on the deification. They repeatedly release fanciful images of Trump being everything he is not, never was, nor ever could be. Trump himself began that practice, something his cult sucked up, when he issued NFTs portraying himself as everything from a fighter pilot to an astronaut. That these silly things sold is absolute proof of cult status. The White House handlers have added to this. They’ve released fake images of him as buff, as some sort of warrior, as a superhero, even as a King (which was the reason behind the protest movement being called “No Kings”. Trump and his staff provided the impetus.)  Of course he’s just a fat old man suffering cognitive and physical decline.

 

The reality is that Trump is pure fabrication, owing his entire later life to the fantasy created by Mark Burnett, who took a failed businessman, who lived solely off of his father’s wealth and co-signed loans, and made him into a celebrity good enough to fool the unsophisticated and weak-minded, which is to say the kind of people susceptible to becoming cult members.

 

Some credit must be given to Trump for seeing what Burnett had done for him---though he would never give Burnett public credit---and parlaying that into his political career. Trump had---at least when he was still in possession of his cognitive facilities---an innate awareness of whom he could fool and how to fool them. He has said himself two things that indicate both this awareness and what he really thinks of his cult (whose value is primarily how it gives him power, gives him endless opportunities to grift, while also feeding his woefully fragile and insecure ego.)

 

“I love the poorly educated” (2016)

 

“Smart people don’t like me”. (2025)

 

Trump might still be aware enough to know he really doesn't have genuine support from the most visible members of the billionaire class, but his power gives Trump a hook into them. Some want tax cuts, some want favorable treatment by the postal system, some want government contracts, and at least one (Zuckerberg) wants to stay out of jail, something with which Trump threatened him when he blocked Trump's Facebook account. These guys, however, blow with the wind, and would abandon Trump if a Democrat took power and had authority. Remember how quickly Musk went from "love" to threatening information about Epstein. Those guys----Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc.---are not actual members of the cult, just opportunists. They never drank the Kool Aid. They're successful people, not losers trying to live vicariously through a cult leader.

 

Trump also must be given credit for understanding the mood among many members of society, people who were being left behind by technological change and the obviation of labor. He gave these people hope, despite having no real solution to help them, but with false hope being better than no hope at all, Trump’s message resonated. Of course he did not deliver, not in his first term and obviously not yet in his second term, but dreams die hard. His first term growth, even before Covid hit, was in the bottom 30% of all Quarters since the end of WWII, and his new term is seeing declines in growth and employment, coupled with increases in inflation.

 

One final credit Trump must be given is that in conjunction with false hope, he also gave people excuses for their lack of success, as well as targets to blame. That is a tactic used by all cult leaders and autocrats since time immemorial, and Trump knows this innately. Trump tossed out various bogeymen and waited to see which resonated. He’s used Moslems, Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and “liberals” as the causes of why so many of Trump’s followers are failing to keep up. Trump tapped in to latent racism and sexism, giving racists and misogynists the all clear, knowing it would attract the bigoted in US society. Racists and bigots still have the right to vote, so Trump knew not to alienate a demographic others would not want. Trump welcomed the endorsement of KKK boss David Duke, though when asked claimed he didn’t know who Duke was. Trump entertained Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at a private Mar-a-Lago dinner, solidifying the antisemite vote. Trump can claim he didn’t know Fuentes’ beliefs, but only the hopelessly naïve would buy that lie, as certainly Trump has staff who would inform him of such things, weighing the potential cost vs the gains of attracting a large and hateful demographic, the same way Trump lent credence to QAnon fantasies, thereby securing them, too. Incels were a natural for Trump, as guys with no game need an excuse and Trump's contempt for women ("I can grab them by the pussy") appeals to male losers.

 

Trump barely disguises his own calls to hate, calling all immigrants “rapists and murderers”, and claiming most anyone who is not a white male is in her position because of “DEI” programs. He has stepped up these calls for hate, beyond Hispanics or Blacks or Moslems, and now includes all Democrats and liberals, who he calls “domestic enemies” or “the enemy within”.

 

The result? False hope works. Calls to hate work. Both keep the cult tight on their leash.

 

Though his popularity is in decline (hitting a new Approval low of 37% and a Disapproval rating of 61%), Trump can keep some of his cult by meeting at least one of their needs. Trump cannot create economic growth nor job growth, and he is failing on the inflation front. He can, however, appeal to the cult’s racism by sending his masked, badgeless stormtroopers after female garment workers or 73-year old South Asian grandmothers. Trump has also learned he can soften his language at times, so instead of calling the seized people “gang members” or “rapists and murderers”, he can simply call them “illegals” and cater to the racist tropes of his cult indirectly. Everyone can pretend ICE is all about law and order, when clearly it’s all about racism.

 

If Trump really wanted to stem the flow of undocumented workers coming across the border (60%) or on visa overstay (40%), he would send ICE after the business owners who hire them. The owners are lawbreakers, too, but get a free pass, as many are members of the Donor Class. If demand dried up, few migrants would bother to try crossing the border. Of course that would snare white males, and that might alienate his base, so he prefers to focus on the symptom, not the cause….go after the people who are “different”.

 

As Trump’s mental acuity and cognition deteriorate, as clearly both are doing now, his handlers become much more important. They have to parse his bizarre statements, almost as if he's Chance the Gardener in "Being There". When they cannot make sense of them, they either ignore them or write them off as jokes or trolls aimed at critics. His handlers also have to excuse his most egregious absurdities, all the while continuing to build and rebuild/repair the fantasy of Trump being what he is not.

 

This parsing and redefining has never been more clear than in the last two or three months. Trump is given credit for stopping conflicts in which his actions played no role or next to no role. He himself is taking credit for stopping wars that didn’t exist, and he cannot keep straight the conflicts his handlers are giving him credit for halting. Trump has also simply made up, no doubt owing to his accelerating cognitive decline, victories in which he had absolutely no part.

 

We have heard Trump recently claim of stopping the largest genocide in human history (sic), that of Rwanda in 1994. “Seven million dead….machetes machetes everywhere, but I stopped that.” We have heard Trump take credit for stopping a “terrible” conflict between a place he called Aberbaijiban and Albania. He took credit for stopping a war between Cambodia and Armenia. (I wonder if Marco Rubio or Witkoff will one day step up to take credit for what they now still gift to Trump, as both might vie for the role of MAGA, Jr., and hope to pick up his banner.)

 

Obviously, Trump did not stop what never existed, and he had no hand in anything whose names he cannot even remember, but his handlers need to keep foisting credit upon the cult leader, because it’s the handlers who stand to benefit by retaining power and the ability to self-deal. There isn’t an icon ready to replace the mentally and physically failing Trump, and the power and money spigot gets shut off if Trump is gone. Hence, they prop him up and give him credit for things he cannot even remember.

 

Both the handlers and some of the cult members sense that the end is near. Trump and his team have gotten away with a lot, but his appeal is fading. His approval rating is tumbling. The economy is in decline, and despite the farcical claims to the contrary, is performing well below what it was when he took office. Growth is slower, if not now negative. Inflation is higher than the day he took office. Job growth has plunged. AI exuberance has kept the equity market on the same path it was on under his predecessor, but that has the smell of early 2000 and Dot.Com. A plus for Trump is that the government shutdown has kept both GDP and job numbers invisible, although private sector projections suggest significant decline.

 

No clearer was the decline in cult appeal than during last weekend’s “No Kings” rally, which saw the largest single day, peaceful, 1st Amendment right protest in the history of the United States, with over 7 million Americans from all walks of life taking to the streets against Trump and MAGA. The cult has tried hard to downplay this massive public display, making up lies of who was behind it, but they failed. It wasn’t antifa. It wasn’t “hate America”, but rather love of the ideals upon which America was founded, including the precious rights of free speech, a free press and freedom of assembly to address grievances. It wasn’t funded by the antisemite’s favorite bogeyman, George Soros. It was grass roots, and in every State of the Union, Blue and Red.

 

Those protests scared the bejesus out of MAGA. Trying to play, as Trump and his handlers do, to their unsophisticated and forlorn cult members, Trump reposted an AI video of him as a king piloting a bomber and spewing diarrhea over the peaceful protestors, a metaphor for Trump defecating on the US Constitution.

 

Cult members, who would never accept such tastelessness and childishness from a politician such as Obama, loved the idiocy and justified it by saying it was a joke or a way to troll the critics. Of course it was nothing of the sort, but cultists are too deep in the fever swamps to even begin to see reality.

 

Like all cults and temporary absurdities or outrages in human behavior, the MAGA cult, too, will end. It’s all a function of Trump and the appeal he has to the forlorn. His mental and physical decline seems to be accelerating, so it’s not out of line to think Trump will no longer be around in a year’s time. There is no one to replace him, so the cult will die. It may sputter for a while as others try to salvage what’s left of it or jockey for leadership, and cult members will try to hold on to what finally gave them a reason to be, but die it will, just as all cults---from Jim Jones to Hitler---eventually died and their sins were laid bare for all to see.

 

So much wasted time in your life typing that all out. Speaking of lives - maybe you should get one. 

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6 hours ago, Wingate said:

His mental and physical decline seems to be accelerating, so it’s not out of line to think Trump will no longer be around in a year’s time

worse than auto-pen bidens mental decline? Biden could even find his way onto a stage and if he did, his brain farted nonstop and he mumbled and drooled about nothing. Why do you think the democrat cultists hid his decline UNTIL Trump humiliated him into submission in the CNN debate and they were forced to throw biden out on his decomposing as$. Trump's smarter than all you feckless haters trolling, hating, embarrassing yourselves here nonstop like a true biden luvin loser.

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40 minutes ago, darbie-foos said:

Lets call it the MAGA 312 Cult 47th edition cult where there are no democrat men getting pregnant and breastfeeding, no child sex mutilations, no drag queen hours in primary schools, no woke DEI freaks being freaks, NO tampons in boys washrooms etc.

 

The 312 Cult has ~77M members strong.  (ask Kamala)

 

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A cult in decline.:thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

Exactly, it's not even a post.

It's a manifesto.

Looks like this guy is trying to start his own cult. 

Better than selling and eating frog legs

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A very well written truth and the Maga moron reply with the standard insults and nonsense.

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6 hours ago, Wingate said:

A cult is a cult is a cult.

 

Cult members lack the self-awareness to know they’re cult members, as “belonging” is what finally gives their otherwise mediocre to meaningless lives some sense of purpose.

Thanks for describing the disposition of the leftist cult religion. Which happens to be your preferred cult, correct?

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1 hour ago, Harrisfan said:

Cut n paste cult lol

Right, and nobody read it including the op.

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The MAGA cult revolution, all 77M strong, unlike the blue haired death cult democrats refrain from focusing on hating america and themselves and now death, a top priority for democrats. MAGA are America loving patriots and live it as such.

 

 

 

1 minute ago, darbie-foos said:

The MAGA cult revolution, all 77M strong, unlike the blue haired death cult democrats refrain from focusing on hating america and themselves and now death, a top priority for democrats. MAGA are America loving patriots and live it as such.

 

 

 

 

 

He knows what he's talking about. ANTIFA almost beat him to death.

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One needs only play a "Danish cartoonist" to get a glimpse into the fever possessing the cultists. It runs to their very core, yet they cannot see it.

 

Curious what cultists will overlook or rationalize.

 

I wonder....

 

When Trump claimed he "stopped" the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, what is the cult explanation? I never saw that discussed on Fox, so I don't know their spin. Either the cult truly believes Trump stopped it, or they know he is in steep cognitive decline and can no longer separate fantasy from reality.

 

As for stopping the "horrible" war between Cambodia and Armenia, does the cult believe there was a war and the rest of us were just too busy to see it, or is that, too, evidence of cognitive decline?

 

There are no other possibilities; either the cult believes the fantasies and delusions, or Trump is in severe mental decline.

 

Sadly, he still has the nuclear codes, and with one order can begin the eradication of all life on Earth.

 

One wishes there were guardrails, as he had in term 1. There is no Gen Mattis, no Gen Kelly, no Gen Milley, no Steve Cohn, no DNI Coates, no SecState Tillotsen, no Sec Def Esper....just sycophants and yes men, none of whom is qualified for the job, save perhaps for Rubio, who lacks cojones. Hegseth is a drunkard and has horrific opsec. Gabbard belongs to another cult and may well be a nutjob. Miller is a raving psychopathic racist weeny (my opinion, as well as the opinion of his family).

 

Ideally, it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment. It is simply too much of a threat to the continued existence of the human race that a man with such a tenuous hold on reality can issue an order to launch around 7000 nuclear weapons, perhaps because he was offended by a late night comedian's joke.

 

I have noted this before, but will repeat: the men and women who sit at the controls of the components of the nuclear triad run drills every single day where they are instructed to launch all hell. Because the correct code has not been sent, no launches occur. The operators do not know until their weapons fail to launch. Of course they assume it's just a drill, and the point of the constant---often multiple daily drills---is to make sure they simply follow the order.

 

Trump can, on his own, send the code. Maybe Hegseth could advise against it, but he wouldn't. The system was designed so that the President has total and complete discretion.

 

Yes, the man who "stopped the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" can wipe out you, your loved ones, and every other person on this fragile planet just because he's having another tantrum.

 

 

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11 hours ago, still kicking said:

Better than selling and eating frog legs

 

Go troll somewhere else. 

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11 hours ago, Wingate said:

One needs only play a "Danish cartoonist" to get a glimpse into the fever possessing the cultists. It runs to their very core, yet they cannot see it.

 

Curious what cultists will overlook or rationalize.

 

I wonder....

 

When Trump claimed he "stopped" the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, what is the cult explanation? I never saw that discussed on Fox, so I don't know their spin. Either the cult truly believes Trump stopped it, or they know he is in steep cognitive decline and can no longer separate fantasy from reality.

 

As for stopping the "horrible" war between Cambodia and Armenia, does the cult believe there was a war and the rest of us were just too busy to see it, or is that, too, evidence of cognitive decline?

 

There are no other possibilities; either the cult believes the fantasies and delusions, or Trump is in severe mental decline.

 

Sadly, he still has the nuclear codes, and with one order can begin the eradication of all life on Earth.

 

One wishes there were guardrails, as he had in term 1. There is no Gen Mattis, no Gen Kelly, no Gen Milley, no Steve Cohn, no DNI Coates, no SecState Tillotsen, no Sec Def Esper....just sycophants and yes men, none of whom is qualified for the job, save perhaps for Rubio, who lacks cojones. Hegseth is a drunkard and has horrific opsec. Gabbard belongs to another cult and may well be a nutjob. Miller is a raving psychopathic racist weeny (my opinion, as well as the opinion of his family).

 

Ideally, it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment. It is simply too much of a threat to the continued existence of the human race that a man with such a tenuous hold on reality can issue an order to launch around 7000 nuclear weapons, perhaps because he was offended by a late night comedian's joke.

 

I have noted this before, but will repeat: the men and women who sit at the controls of the components of the nuclear triad run drills every single day where they are instructed to launch all hell. Because the correct code has not been sent, no launches occur. The operators do not know until their weapons fail to launch. Of course they assume it's just a drill, and the point of the constant---often multiple daily drills---is to make sure they simply follow the order.

 

Trump can, on his own, send the code. Maybe Hegseth could advise against it, but he wouldn't. The system was designed so that the President has total and complete discretion.

 

Yes, the man who "stopped the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" can wipe out you, your loved ones, and every other person on this fragile planet just because he's having another tantrum.

 

 

 

You're putting in a lot of effort with these long-winded diatribes.

 

Someone paying you for this? 

 

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9 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Ideally, it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment

Too late, the brain rotted auto-pen Biden was thrown out by his own party, try to keep up. 

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