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A Cult is a Cult is a Cult

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26 minutes ago, candide said:

Such a ridiculously gullible cult! They even believe that Trump actually won the 2020 election! 🤣🤣🤣

 

 

A June Monmouth University poll found that 68% of Republican respondents believe Biden won the 2020 election because of voter fraud. 

https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/documents/monmouthpoll_us_062023.pdf/

This one is old stuff.

Oldies but goodies! 🤣

Poll: 46 Percent Of Trump Voters Believe ‘Pizzagate’ Theory

https://dcist.com/story/16/12/28/poll/

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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 preju

  • Maybe break the pills in half next time.

  • ...Antifa, the Democrat Party, Anti-Trump organizations, LGBTQ+, mask-wearing pro-vaxxers.....

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29 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Miller is a raving psychopathic racist weeny (my opinion, as well as the opinion of his family).

Stephen Miller....?  If you had half his brains, you would still be clueless, and lonesome too, between the ears.

 

Miller is outstanding and the liberal haters go berserk at the mention of his name. He routinely wrecks dumb like rocks regime media activists like CNN, turns them inside out and makes them wish they never met him (see below)

 

This first CNN interview is the bomb.

 

 

Climate is a cult, in Europe at least.

 

The child sex abuse hoax is a cult, a satanic one at that.

1 hour ago, darbie-foos said:

Easy to conclude the democrat party is a cult of morons. Deranged morons at that.

 

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Who can honestly disagree with De Niro on this. If someone decided to build a creep from scratch they would end up with a creature very similar to Miller.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, BLMFem said:

 

Who can honestly disagree with De Niro on this. If someone decided to build a creep from scratch they would end up with a creature very similar to Miller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If only his arms weren't so weak.....plus he couldn't reach being only 4' 11"

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7 hours ago, Cameroni said:

Maybe break the pills in half next time.

 

funny ........

5 minutes ago, rumak said:

 

funny ........

 

It means the most coming from you, Rumak.

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Who is with me?👍

 

 

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27 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Who is with me?👍

 

 

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You're a clown buddy.

3 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

You're a clown buddy.

Sad troll is what he is. 

9 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

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.

All assumptions not based in fact as all people are different and some of what you are ascribing Ie the vaccine was done during a pandemic that killed over a million Americans.

A cult is is cult, a revolution is a revolution and that's exactly what MAGA is ...A  REVOLUTION.

 

Haters hate Trumps MAGA revolution, it works, its WINNING and the haters and losers cannot deal with it.

 

Big reason why they hate Trump, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Kash P, Pam B, Tulsi G et al etc....ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE SO EFFECTIVE! Haters are losers BIG TIME and wish only the same for Trump, but that's nothing new here right haters? As long as Trumps MAGA revolution fails (which it never will) then you will be comforted.

 

 

 

8 hours ago, darbie-foos said:

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

 

 

They know how to work a narssist…..in my view it’s really easy and simple just look at the deeds not the words thats the problem with trump supporters.One also needs to be mindful that anything done must be done within the the constitution and laws.we all know trump flaps his yap constantly and mostly spews lies….thats the truth it’s documented on record….the deeds (just barely scratching the surface) let’s just take this last week …..wants to defecate on Americans for practicing our 1th amendment….tryed to surrender ukraine again…..is chortling about the joy of putting people out of work…..is actively trying to kill our healthcare….is practicing law fare vengeance against folks that didn’t let him have his way…..is practicing what is the equivalent of murder on the high seas with his sink first ask questions later damm the consequences…..those are just some of the (DEEDS) he’s doing this week…..most lucid folks don’t like that.

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

If only his arms weren't so weak.....plus he couldn't reach being only 4' 11"

Another know-nothing leftist just regurgitating a lie.  

 

When you lie incessantly, you lose credibility with non-leftists. 

1 hour ago, Tug said:

is practicing law fare vengeance against folks that didn’t let him have his way

who would that be? Did some of these "folks" break the law, lie to congress, commit perjury, try to overthrow Trumps presidency, commit mortgage fraud? You have a problem with the rule of law? Holding law breakers accountable? What about democrats favorite mantra, "nobody's above the law". You are so feckless, hypocritical and totally out to lunch and brainwashed.

 

You have no concept, NO IDEA wtf you are talking about ....You just HATE all things Trump and are so brainwashed, full of hate and deranged over Trump you are losing you mind or what remains of it.

 

What exactly does Trump "want his way"?

MAYBE ALL THIS:

Secure borders, low crime, prosperity for the nation, peace in the world, cut waste fraud and abusive gov't spending, stopping corruption, protecting freedom and democracy and so much more! If you have a problem with this, then move to bum-phuk Egypt, and just keep "on a hating". You can suffer with Trump butthurt till the day you die because you HATE! You're a pathetic waste of skin and fresh air.

 

1 hour ago, Tug said:

mostly spews lies

Didn't Biden and his auto-pen spew lies about a secure border that only allowed 10 or 20 million illegal criminal aliens to enter the country AND get free social benefits while vets were homeless. You must be so proud of that brain rotted Biden who only told lies you approved of. U are a brainwashed hypocrite.

Old sleepy Joe once had a cult following that almost voted him to another term but then the Biden cult realized that they were looking through rose colored glasses and the lights were on in Biden's head but no one was home. Then the Biden cult decided that old Joe could not possibly win the election so they choose "word salad" Kamal as their new candidate. But like old Biden, Kamala was not much sharper than her boss. So in the end the good patriot citizens of the United States choose the only logical, practical, intelligent candidate, Trump as President. Now some in the old Biden cult are really down in the dumps and make up ridiculous assumptions to try to pacify themselves to the fact that they are total losers like their candidates, Biden and Kamala. 

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1 hour ago, Tug said:

s actively trying to kill our healthcare

How so, by refusing to provide free health care to illegal criminal aliens?  Explain yourself if you think you know how!

2 hours ago, Tug said:

those are just some of the (DEEDS) he’s doing this week…..most lucid folks don’t like that.

Here's what your beloved america hating democrats are doing to the country because the MAGA squad refuse to cave to an $1.5T in spending AND free health care for illegals restored! schumer, Jeffries hate Trump more than you like common sense  but you're far too brainwashed and full of hate to have the slightest semblance of a clue of exactly wtf is going on except to say the "narssis" is wrecking the country this week all the while the democrats because of their obsession with spending and free health care for illegal aliens are putting the screws to people like you who are to ignorant and blinded by Trump hatred derangement  to see it. In case you haven't noticed, the federal gov't is SHUT DOWN because democrats refuse to vote for and accept the clean CR bill. The republicans have a all voted (except for 1) to pass the CR and reopen the government. 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Tug said:

thats the problem with trump supporters

what is their problem??


Maybe you and all democrat supporters are the problem: an anti-American problem!

 

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22 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.

 

You are on the cult of the left. 

I really must go to the opticians!😀

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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

 

Got as far as that.

Yawn.:coffee1:

HI There. :clap2:

 

 

 

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12 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Who is with me?

 

All the zeros.

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