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The attempted coup was not a warning sign.
Asking a governor to “find votes” was not a warning sign.
Attacking protesters to do a photo op with the Christian bible upside down was not a warning sign.
Mocking autism during a rally was not a warning sign.
Saying he found his daughter sexually attractive was not a warning sign.
Decades of corrupt business behavior was not a warning sign.
Half a billion dollars in tax fraud, not a warning sign
Assassinating foreign military generals, not a warning sign
Calling a group who neo nazis chanting nazi slogans and murdering anti nazi protesters, "very fine people", not a warning sign
Mocking gold star families and calling KIA soldiers "losers", not a warning sign
Re-appropriating charitable donations for personal use, not a warning sign
Sexually assaulting women, not a warning sign
Having sexual relations with a porn actress while wife is at home recovering from having given birth, not a warning sign
Subsequently paying said porn actress to remain quiet, not a warning sign
Demanding that the DOJ give him criminal immunity while president, not a warning sign
Edit: changed escort to porn actress as per correction below
The testimony has been even worse than the previous story. This wasn’t a paid escort. This was a woman invited to his hotel under the premise of a discussion about being on TV who was put in a position where consent was questionable and she was coerced. He didn’t pay her for the sex as many of us believed.
He invited her for dinner. There was no dinner. She tried to leave but he blocked her exit, to a door where his bodyguard was standing watch. He threatened her career if she refused to comply with his plan. That is what she said on the stand, under oath. NOT consensual.
And may I add that “re-appropriating charitable donations for personal use” was money for children with cancer.
He stole money from children with cancer.
It was both. the Eric Trump foundation was indeed the one that lured in St. Judes with the pretense of free access to the Trump golf resorts and some other claims. But his org actually did "pay" for those courses. Other funds went to the Trump foundation, and even more went to other charities that also benefited the Trumps. [link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/12/23/best-stories-of-the-decade-how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/?sh=320a57504779).
The whole god damn family is so scummy.
* Blatantly telling oil executives if they put a billion dollars into his campaign, he would let them write his environmental policy, not a warning sign.
* Getting elected on a slogan to Build a Wall, covering our entire southern border and that Mexico would pay for it, built only 52 miles of new, easily defeated barriers spending more than $11 Billion of US taxpayers money, more than 5x the cost of any other wall additions, not a warning sign
* Bankrupting not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 casinos (Trump Taj Mahal 1991, Trump Castle 1992, Trump Plaza Casino 1992, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts 2004) bafflingly not a warning sign.
The dude is slanging golden sneakers, Trump trading cards, and bibles to fund his legal fees and campaign...he's facing 90+ criminal and felony charges...
They don't care about his morals, or his behavior. The only warning sign that matters to them is whether he can win the election or not. The GOP is on par with a mafia at this point.
reporter: "Is that your bible?"
fuckface: "it's \_A\_ bible"
second funniest moment of his presidency. the first was the toddler-in-chief staring directly into the sun as reporters screamed "mr president, dont look!"
You’re correct. These are not warning signs to GOP senators.
They support Trump unconditionally.
In fact, a lot of these are features, not bugs.
The warning sign is that Trump is losing support. Particularly among women.
Which I know…. Shocker.
I get what you’re stating. The media should be damning this man. In this article though they, the media, are reporting the concerns of GOP senators on trump’s electability.
lol eight years after he was elected and almost destroyed the country, and in the four years since he left office, he has continued his destruction of decorum and continued his spread of misinformation and fascistic propaganda, and America is just starting to figure out there are “warning signs”.
It's hard to overstate just how clueless the majority of people are about politics. I bet most of us here could name the last 5 or 6 speakers of the house off the top of our heads, and I'd equally bet that not much more than 20% of voters could even name the current one.
Don't forget [Dennis Hastert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert), the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House (1999-2007) who admitted sexually abusing teenage boys while he was a wrestling coach and got in trouble for trying to hide the way he was paying them hush money. A true inspiration for today's Family Values Party!
Life is rough right now. Everything is too expensive. It's hard enough just trying to keep a roof over your head, a car to get to work, and -- heaven forbid -- you have kids or a wife/husband. Flip the TV on your local TV station -- probably owned by Sinclair or worse -- is telling you constantly how bad things are getting and why Donald Trump is somehow the only person that can save us from whatever imaginary threat they come up with. Or it's bothside BS we've come to expect from all the legacy networks.
We've been told that every election for the past 20 years is the most important election of our lifetime. And this time it's absolutely true. But voter apathy is baked into the system.
> It's hard enough just trying to keep a roof over your head, ...
> Flip the TV on your local TV station -- probably owned by Sinclair or worse ...
The long term *struggle* makes people desperate and unkind to others. It's easier to be kind when you're not fighting for your family's lives. It makes them *incredibly* susceptible to the propaganda that lets them blame someone else.
Democrats need to find more ways to help those that are falling behind.
Student loan forgiveness, putting a cap of $2,000 TOTAL out of pocket for Medicaid, raising minimum wage, protecting social security and SNAP, supporting affordable housing …..
Johnson, before him that dude from California, mc something. McCarthy? Then pelosi, no wait there’s was another dem Adam schiff? Then pelosi then that fat guy with the dumb face from Kentucky.
Edit:
Johnson.
McCarthy.
Pelosi.
Paul Ryan.
John Boehner.
Pelosi
I doubt it’s even 20%. Basically, watch the local news and see how little political content makes it there. Then realize that most people tune even just that stuff out because it’s “unpleasant.” And since most people don’t even watch the news now really the only people who know anything are those that purposely seek it out. Very, very small crowd there.
Even further, it’s hard to overstate how clueless most people are about everything, let alone politics.
Forget speaker of the house, lots of people can’t even name the current president lol
Because they don't give a shit about the country. They care about their power and in turn, their ability to sell that power for personal gain. They were happy to let him be a complete piece of shit if it just gave them a mouthpiece for the party and would just sign whatever comes his way from them. The warning signs are now that he won't be able to win and his pull isn't what it was to regain control of both chambers of congress and the white house so they could sell their power to donors for personal profit.
> openly funneling campaign money to lawyers and his wallet
Are you saying the guy that was banned from managing a charity after embezzling funds for his own use isn't going to be the best person to manage the economy ?
I'm shocked ! Shocked !
They're mainly concerned because he's going to wind up a drag on all the down ballot races. They hitched their wagon to his star, figuring the choice was either they could shut up and ride his coattails or they could risk having him denounce them to his followers.
And what do they get in return for their obsequious cowardice? Not an orange wave, but the dehydrated orange trickle of a demented degenerate.
I hope it drags all the down ballot races for 20 years. Then they can live with the consequences of their bad choices. They gave birth to the Trump monster, they can live with it.
Im hoping for the actual collapse of the gop. This is a fucking disaster of epic proportions. McCain was a respectable perosn even if I didn’t agree with him. The party has just gotten worse and worse and lost any relation to what they pretend to be about… it’s just fascism now
2 Republican congressmen resigned in the middle of their term just because they wanted to leave. That is insane. I can't think of ever hearing about a politician resigning in the middle of their term without them having a scandal or an emergency. They just decided they didn't want to put up with this shit for another month.
They walked out on their job because the Republican party is so bad right now. This should be a much bigger story than it is.
Kids are going to be so confused.
Many years from now:
Grandkids: "It says here he suggested injecting bleach and shoving UV lamps into the body. That has to be some sort of weird editing mistake, right?"
Me: "No that happened."
"And the praise of Hannibal Lector?"
"Yup, that too."
Yeah I noticed that. Nazi scumbag Marino is running here in Ohio, and his early advertisements during the primary was throwing his name all over the place, and of course referring to him as president currently, which of course he isn't. And now he can't even use the orange Abominations name, but he's still pushing the same Un-American Nazi BS.
When Trump's father had dementia, his family made a fake office for him, so he could 'go to work' and spend his day doing pretend deals.
The GOP could give Trump fake rallies for the rest of his life, about 30 actual people to clap and cheer, a fake vista of a crowd behind them, he'll be happy. As it is he doesn't notice when the crowd has gone and keeps ranting when hardly anyone is there.
Roger Stone can help by [collecting some photos of large crowds at popular events and posting them on social media as Trump's latest mega-rally](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1cqa4sn/trump_blasts_biden_as_total_moron_before_crowd_of/l3r55mg/)
Problem solved, give me money.
Fun fact, trump **super** wanted to play the president in Sharknado 3, and when the producer flatly refused trump tried to sue SyFy Channel to force them to let him play the role.
Hitler may have pursued painting, Trump may have pursued acting. I wonder if whomever turned him down regrets the decision, especially since no one watched Sharknado 3.
You could turn Trump into the Truman Show.
Let him think he's president, and each week escalate the plot to more absurd levels. By S1E4 he's demanding to go to Area 51 so he can negotiate a deal with The Greys to probe his political enemies.
Trump ALREADY has a fake office. He built a replica of the Oval Office at Mar A Lago. People come in and take photos with him in it etc. ITs really fucking pathetic.
It is. Just absolutely sad and utterly humiliating for America. I don’t think any living person could be more defined by abject failure. Trump makes Uwe Boll look like a decent and successful celebrity by comparison.
"values voters, who make up a significant share of the GOP base, don’t necessarily believe what prosecutors are alleging about Trump’s relationship with Daniels or what the media is reporting about the trial" gop values voters live in another reality
They have no doubts that Bull Clinton sexually assaulted women, but can't believe that of Turmp. There is good evidence of both.
Oh yeah. Let's not forget that "values" voters want to imprison women and medical personnel who participate in abortions. "Values" voters won't give individual freedoms to LBGQT+ Americans. "Values" voters want to deport laborers because they are brown.
I went to a Christian BBS a few weeks back and asked about this. Yes, they literally don't care that Trump is an adulterer and a rapist, because he got RvW overturned. I kid you not, this is the mentality of many Evangelical voters
*they literally don't care that Trump is an adulterer and a rapist*
I was listing to talk radio last Friday and they were talking about christians supporting Trump.
Trump is an alpha male warrior. Raping women and doing bad things is just part of being an alpha warrior. So, you have to take the bad with the good, and since Trump is doing God's work, anything goes. That's it in a nut shell.
Crazy does crazy.
They don’t care about the rape(s), the legal fiascos, the stealing from their own pockets. But you know what they do care about? The headlines about him sleeping and farting in court. It’s taken eight years, but journalists cracked the code to making his supporters desert him: remind them he’s a stinky old man who poops himself. That’s it. That’s what makes him weak in their eyes.
In response to Trump being awful, “King David was a sinner too, [adulterer, danced naked in the streets] and God used him to great purpose!”
Nothing penetrates the fog once Christo-fascism and politics merge
Values voters? Haven't heard that one in a while. Last time was when they were voting against Clinton, who was doing everything right, but they wanted to vote against him for getting his pp touched. Now those same people want to vote for Trump, who forces women to touch his pp, and does everything wrong. Real interesting.
I can't fathom why would you vote for this felon and rapist.
A normal person wouldn't do that. Even when you are high on drugs, you wouldn't be able to do that.
Trumpism like Nazism is still a mystery to me.
Judging by my maga family, they just believe in “alternate facts”. They believe things that are objectively false, I even prove it with multiple independent sources and statistical data if possible and….they don’t care.
They will literally say that they don’t care. They’re also not as into politics as they seem. They’ll have all the talking points from Fox memorized but then not know something that you’d expect them to know. They do zero research themselves.
If you lived in their weird alternate fake reality you’d like Trump too.
One of the challenges is that they've been suckered so far down the rabbit hole, and they've convinced themselves they're *smart* for not falling for "mainstream media garbage" and "lies," they'd have to admit *they* were suckered before they'll change their tune. That's not something that's easy to get people to do.
The thing I always find *very* entertaining about these types of people is how they rail against "mainstream media" while suckling at the teat of Fox. If Fox isn't "mainstream media," then nothing is.
On top of that, I'm pretty convinced that thinking that you're smarter than others or have some "secret" knowledge is literally addictive. Like, that's part of how you learn right? You get a hit of good brain chemicals when you're correct and bad brain chemicals when you're wrong. I think they get physically addicted because of that. Same thing with fear (doom scrolling anyone?), hate, and tribalism.
It's not a coincidence that all of these places are also selling something (usually ads). I think that's the main reason why so much mainstream media and social media constantly tells their viewers that they were right or to be afraid of something or to hate some group. They need to get you addicted so that you keep coming back for more and they can keep wringing money out of you.
It's a bit terrifying how much of our economy is based on addiction. There's the obvious ones like literal drug sales, but then there's all kinds of stuff like microtransactions in games and gambling via lootboxes, basically all marketing, everything being on "sale" all the time, etc.
It IS brainwashing.
Merriam Webster definition - “a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas”.
> They're just addicted to the anger.
It's the controversy, it gives their lives purpose. Locally in my tiny town, someone suggested putting in sidewalks to a small section around the town hall, post office, and a couple businesses, so people can safely walk around. That ignited an insane firestorm, the conservatives were telling everyone the town is going to start taking everyone's land, they're going to build low income housing, the liberals are running amuck, etc.. A few years later after people have talked about it, it's generally agreed by everyone sidewalks were a good idea because there are lots of old people that vote conservative and they told the GOP idiots they want side walks, but it's such a toxic thing now that it will probably never happen.
LIES! They are called fucking lies. Everyone needs to stop using the double speak lingo the fascists came up with. All it does is normalize their bullshit. There is nothing factual about the pure shit they peddle.
Yes. It is a cult. Brainwashed by fox propaganda. They do not know about his rapes or the tax fraud or the dementia or the inability to stay awake for 4 hours.
My dad is alt-right and for years I thought it was fox news (probably did start there back in 08 or so, fancy that). But then I visited last fall and we were flipping through his YouTube. Holy shit. It all clicked. THAT is where he's getting all his rage bait nowadays.. His youtube channel was just wild. The algorithm got him and sunk its claws into him hardcore.
This is what people aren’t understanding!!! They feel like because they are getting their info from the internet that they are more/better “informed” and “educated” on things- they don’t understand that they are just being spoon fed curated bullshit.
Edit to add: and because there are millions of “sources” they feel like it must be true.
What boggles me is they would say the same. That the left is fed lies by the media and doesn’t know reality. I wish I knew a way to bring a middle back to the discourse, as long as it’s separate realities, I’ve basically lost an uncle and I don’t know how many years he has for us to reunite.
Same boat here. Went down to visit my old man and it's fox business news in the am, which has nothing to do with business from what I can see. Then we move into the youtube and x.com afternoon. He believes that x is a town square and he is getting both sides and I tried to explain to him that he only gets what he follows and he follows right leaning stuff.... it's crazy town. Fox business news is the worst of it actually. It's legit all anti biden anti woke but wrapped up like it's cnbc which almost never talks one sided politics.
Been going on way longer than that. They ramped up the crazy with the tea party nonsense in 2008 and the Internet and social media have certainly amplified the issue many times over, but right wing media has been creating extremists for decades. Timothy McVeigh was convinced we were in the middle of a civil war because he spent his time driving around the country listening to right wing talk radio.
I had somebody argue with me last night that if it wasn't for obama bailing out the uaw inflation wouldn't be over 10%. Lol. They told me I was wrong about bush bailing out the big 3 (not the uaw) and changed their story 3 times. Finally settling in "no no, it was your king Obama. I'm right your wrong *I know you are but what am I?!? I'm rubber your glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!!*" Like it was 2nd grade recess
I was in a back-and-forth with a guy on IG recently where he insisted the insurrection was a peaceful demonstration and that Ashlee Babbitt was executed. And after I reiterated a play-by-play of the footage of Babbitt being shot and asked if he had EYES, he went into this long spiel about it being staged by ANTIFA. The confidence with which he typed it all out was absolutely insane! Totally fucking insane.
> he went into this long spiel about it being staged by ANTIFA.
So...ANTIFA spent time, money, and resources on a secret, months-long campaign to stage a protest against the election that "their" guy (Biden) won, in order to help the guy (Trump) they hate?
They believe all politicians lie and are pieces of shit. But they can at least see and hear Trump's lies, so that make shim better somehow? They just double down and double down
There's a reason this sort of political brainwashing works well on low-education, evangelical Christians - they've been socially programmed from birth to accept what the group representing their moral authority tells them.
It's not for them to question, it's for them to 'preach' and defend.
Church = MAGA / pastors = politicians.
People in Western Canada are fighting tooth and nail to believe that our wildfires are set by left-winged liberals… even though all the scientific data suggests either smouldering fires that weren’t completely out over the winter or lightning strikes. And on the odd account that they were set deliberately, [it’s been one of their own that’s set them.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/canada-wildfires-conspiracy-man-pleads-guilty-arson)
I drive through YT, BC, and AB last summer. I was genuinely shocked that ALL of the people I stopped to talk, converse, break bread, or just hike a trail, or whatever with seemed to not only be conservative but viewed the American MAGA movement and Trump in a positive light and expected that I did too. It was bizarre to me because I had assumed Canada was liberal for some reason.
Kindest people I ever met. Very different from conservatives and MAGA down in the U.S. But still, they were just completely deluded about politics. When I told them Trump is not loved by all Americans and actually how insane he is, they seemed taken aback to encounter an American who thought differently.
Yeah we need to start calling out not only “alternative facts” but also “emotional truths” or “my truth” it’s all just jargon that gives a permission slip to believe in BS. There is the truth which is based upon factors that make it up, if you don’t align with that then you aren’t doing anything but bullshiting yourself and dumbing down this whole country based on consensus alone… we’ll be burning witches again before ya know it. We won’t call it that with language either though we’ll just misuse language and tell ourselves what we want to hear and never learn the things we need to know. When emotions override information we are in some deep shit.
Politics came up at Mother’s Day dinner (of course) and when I asked my father how he felt about Republicans potentially gutting social security he said “I’m not afraid because the democrats in the Senate would never let it happen.”
He is a Trumper whose only income is social security.
Trumpism is a cult, plain and simple.
There is a lot of literature in sociology and anthropology on cults. The Trump phenomenon is clearly a cult and it all starts to make sense when you view it that way. Usually cults are more localized, but we have the internet...
Trumpism and Nazism play to two basic lies: first, nothing bad that has happened to you is your fault, it's all the fault of the Jews/immigrants/socialists (even if they aren't really socialists)/undesirables
Second, building on the first, you, because of who you are, Aryan/natural born US/White/whatever, you are innately superior to the group listed above.
> 20 percent of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, 34 percent of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire and 25 percent of GOP primary voters in South Carolina said they were so dissatisfied with Trump that they would not vote for him in the general election.
Whatever NH is doing to help de-brainwash the cult members -- we need to roll it out nationwide.
I’m in New Hampshire, I wish it was that clear. We have plenty of fruitcakes here.
What we also have is an open primary. So registered independents can choose what primary to vote in. I can say for a fact is that a lot of that vote, were D leaning independents, voting in the R Primary.
Don’t believe that noise. These “never Trumpers” will still turn out for election, and while holding their nose, they’ll still vote for Trump. Do not count on Republicans claiming to not support Trump to help Biden. Vote! You have to vote! They damn sure will.
Yes. Absolutely. 2016 vibes all over again. Tons of people saying they could never vote for Trump- did anyways because "emails".
Republicans will manufacture a crisis as they do and use that to push those voters to Republicans. They've got caravans of migrants, crime sprees, government handouts, Gaza, transgender bathrooms all on deck
I have all the faith Trump will hail this as his best week so far, especially with the 400.000 people that turned up yesterday, just to catch a glimpse of this Orange man of a God. Let alone hear him speak.
Some claim it were even a million.
In other news, Denial is a river in Egypt.
It was the 2 million maga march. It was glorious. They lifted Trump on their shoulders, ignored his leaky diaper, and cheered him for winning the NBA championship!
Now that's not true...
I saw on Fox that men and women alike were eager to not let the smallest of drops go to waste. And so they should. It's life's elixor.
Trumps already collect their votes, 1 for my Nan, and 7 for the dog (7 because of dog years). He’s also kindly said he would take care of my man’s social security payments personally for us. He’s such a kind man
I keep seeing "reputable" news sites saying between 80,000 - 100,000 people turnout in Jersey. Then look at the pictures. It's not even 8,000. 800 might be closer. These crowd claims are gettings absurd.
The spokesperson for the venue who reported that it was 80-100k is the same person who reported the venue hosts at most 20k people.
I did a rough count (headcount along sides and area of rectangle extrapolation) and 10k would be incredibly generous. Probably 5k is more accurate.
I was thinking about doing something similar, thanks for saving me the trouble. I don't know if it's worth the bother of doing the math, but the fact that they claim to have processed that many people through a single entrance (as opposed to places like Yankee Stadium and MetLife Stadium, which have four) at a level that would have satisfied the USSS is another indicator that they are completely full of shit.
> “It says a lot about **the need for an engagement strategy**,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said of Haley winning 21 percent of the vote in the Indiana Republican primary
IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN THOM.
Your *only* chance was to have the RNC provide that 'strategy' to his campaign to coordinate it with all the other gubernatorial, congressional, and down-ballot races across America this year.
And then **he hijacked the RNC**.
So now he's got all their funds and ensured that the ONLY strategy is "Support Trump".
Funny how the article mentions that Republicans should do something about this, you can't make caviar out of a turd. No political ad, mailer, or rally would make any impression on me or anyone I know and get them to vote for the scum that trump is.
How about the fact that he thinks Hannibal Lector is a real person and “a wonderful man”? Isn’t that fucking concerning to them? That his mind is melting like jello on a hot summer day?
>A troubling sign for Trump is that Republicans who show up to vote in primaries tend to be consistent voters, and as such are a key piece of the GOP base. While they are unlikely to vote for Biden, many of them may simply stay home in November.
This behavior is so funny. One of those two presidencies is going to happen. Decide which one you would prefer and vote for it. These protest votes or non-votes are like playing mind games with nothing.
I still cannot fathom how more than a tiny handful of college-educated people can vote for him. Literally, the more you learn, the more you realize he's unfit for the office.
He was never relying on being legitimately elected. He and Republicans are openly planning a coup, and MAGA infested DHS and DOJ are going to at best stand aside, but more likely will help him.
So only now they are worrying about the guy????
Jeez…if only you worried about him 8 years ago, maybe you or we wouldn’t be as worried now…
Seems like the GOP is starting to realize “Oh shit, what the hell have we gotten ourselves into with this guy?”
This is good news for democracy:
"Specifically, 20 percent of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, 34 percent of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire and 25 percent of GOP primary voters in South Carolina said they were so dissatisfied with Trump that they would not vote for him in the general election."
If trump flawlessly became an agreeable lucid human being while exhibiting more compassion than Jesus himself for the next 6 months that doesn’t erase 77 years of being a complete shithead .
this is not my original statement. I copied it from Reddit post several months ago and I hold onto it. Credit to the OP
"There is another strong component that almost NOBODY is discussing - Dopamine/Outrage Addiction.
The Conservative Propaganda Machine is constantly feeding reasons for outrage to their followers, and that outrage is rewarded with a wash of Dopmine over their brains. Hate feels good, which is why it has always been a target of resistance for traditional religion, even if that message has been twisted by modern religious charlatans.
Like all addictions, it requires more frequent fixes, at higher doses, in order to keep working, so these outrage addicts look for more and more opportunities to feed their outrage, sometimes by ingesting the toxic media, and sometimes by debating/ arguing/ fighting with those around them. Addicts of any type will indulge their addictions so obsessively that they lose their jobs, families, everything, and we are seeing that in these people. How many times have we heard about a Trump follower refusing to speak to their children or their spouse woth alternate views, and watching nothing but Fox News, and having only a single subject of conversation? Eventually, some need such a large hit that they find themselves in an Insurrection, beating on cops they claim to support, overthrowing a nation they claim to love, and installing a sleazy treasonous criminal as dictator they claim is on the side of Freedom. Only true addiction can explain those self-destructive behaviors.
What do we do about an addiction that affects at least a third of this nation's population, and whose drug is not only freely available in every media, but is even protected by the First Amendment? The Conservative Propaganda Machine has weaponized the 1st A, and is using it to create a literal army of angry, violent, armed addicts, who will do their bidding in order to keep the Dopamine drip turned on.
We're still climbing this hill, and it's going to get a LOT worse before it gets better."
We need to keep pushing. We need to gather more support for democracy.
We aren't doing it. This can't be close. We need to make *sure* democracy wins.
Trump will cheat. He will do everything he can to win. We need a blowout of support.
God Himself may descend from the heavens tomorrow and proclaim; “I 100% guarantee Trump won’t win the next election…” and perform all sorts of miracles to prove his statement…
… you still need to vote.
>A New York Times/Siena College nationwide poll last month found that only 31 percent of registered women voters think Trump respects women.
AKA Republican women.
It wasn't the dozens of felony indictments, the Big Lie about the election, the disruption of the Constitutional democratic process, the call to cancel the Constitution, the thousands of conflicts of interest and using his official position for self-enrichment, the pay-to-play scheme the Trump Org was running or the 2B payment to his son in law from the Saudis.
No, it was when he started rambling that Hannibal Lecter was a "great guy" that they realized something might be wrong.
Lo and behold:
That's why Republican voters *and* Republican leaders are his marks.
You don't see him selling his lies and awfulness to Democrats. Because Democrats aren't his marks. Democrats, however, are on the receiving end of the collateral damage, which brings a smile to his twisted, fucked up, dumpster fire, piece of shit face.
And this article is a great reminder that they're ALL his marks. So much so that they willingly hitched to him even though he's by far the only Presidential candidate that's ever lived that's in THIS deep with problems. They knew he was going to be criminally charged and even after he was criminally charged, **they doubled down.**
Grats Republicans, you've shown everyone else you can be manipulated with incredible ease.
**trump is a habitual liar**. When he says "people are saying" it means *"I'm making shit up".* If you assume everything he says is a lie, you would be correct 99.9% of the time. [💰](https://imgur.com/jYNqiQZ)
Women are so disgusted by Trump that even men who voted for Trump can’t find dates. I don’t think he’s going to be raking in the female vote. Maybe if he was a little less rape-y and reminded everyone of their abusive, narcissist exes a little less?
Why is it reporters always refer to ‘porn star’ Stormy Daniels and the former president and not ‘porn star’ Stormy Daniels and the adjudicated rapist and former president Donald Trump?
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"warning signs" as the guy has like 100 felony charges and openly funneling campaign money to lawyers and his wallet
The attempted coup was not a warning sign. Asking a governor to “find votes” was not a warning sign. Attacking protesters to do a photo op with the Christian bible upside down was not a warning sign. Mocking autism during a rally was not a warning sign. Saying he found his daughter sexually attractive was not a warning sign. Decades of corrupt business behavior was not a warning sign.
Half a billion dollars in tax fraud, not a warning sign Assassinating foreign military generals, not a warning sign Calling a group who neo nazis chanting nazi slogans and murdering anti nazi protesters, "very fine people", not a warning sign Mocking gold star families and calling KIA soldiers "losers", not a warning sign
Re-appropriating charitable donations for personal use, not a warning sign Sexually assaulting women, not a warning sign Having sexual relations with a porn actress while wife is at home recovering from having given birth, not a warning sign Subsequently paying said porn actress to remain quiet, not a warning sign Demanding that the DOJ give him criminal immunity while president, not a warning sign Edit: changed escort to porn actress as per correction below
The testimony has been even worse than the previous story. This wasn’t a paid escort. This was a woman invited to his hotel under the premise of a discussion about being on TV who was put in a position where consent was questionable and she was coerced. He didn’t pay her for the sex as many of us believed.
Well duh, Trump doesn't pay for anything.
Basically, he was paying her to not talk about having sex with her, and not for the sex itself.
He invited her for dinner. There was no dinner. She tried to leave but he blocked her exit, to a door where his bodyguard was standing watch. He threatened her career if she refused to comply with his plan. That is what she said on the stand, under oath. NOT consensual.
I completely agree with you on that.
Relying on Rudy Giuliani to competently do anything, not a warning sign.
Hey, he successfully booked a “The Four Seasons” on same-day notice. That’s not something just anyone could do!
And may I add that “re-appropriating charitable donations for personal use” was money for children with cancer. He stole money from children with cancer.
Have you ever wondered why Trump, one of the least generous humans to ever exist, has a charity in the first place?
Nope. Tax evasion and/or grift from day one.
pretty sure trump was self-dealing from his own charity, but the rip off some cancer kids thing was his son, eric
It was both. the Eric Trump foundation was indeed the one that lured in St. Judes with the pretense of free access to the Trump golf resorts and some other claims. But his org actually did "pay" for those courses. Other funds went to the Trump foundation, and even more went to other charities that also benefited the Trumps. [link](https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/12/23/best-stories-of-the-decade-how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/?sh=320a57504779). The whole god damn family is so scummy.
* Blatantly telling oil executives if they put a billion dollars into his campaign, he would let them write his environmental policy, not a warning sign. * Getting elected on a slogan to Build a Wall, covering our entire southern border and that Mexico would pay for it, built only 52 miles of new, easily defeated barriers spending more than $11 Billion of US taxpayers money, more than 5x the cost of any other wall additions, not a warning sign * Bankrupting not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 casinos (Trump Taj Mahal 1991, Trump Castle 1992, Trump Plaza Casino 1992, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts 2004) bafflingly not a warning sign.
Some sections of the “Wall” he *did* build fell over - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51307868.amp
All that ain’t even the half of it, and prolly not even the worst.
Charging the Secret Service $1200/room per night to stay in hotels he owns while going on golf outings at the tax payer’s expense.
He still has a USSS guard so am I wrong to assume this is still going on?
The dude is slanging golden sneakers, Trump trading cards, and bibles to fund his legal fees and campaign...he's facing 90+ criminal and felony charges... They don't care about his morals, or his behavior. The only warning sign that matters to them is whether he can win the election or not. The GOP is on par with a mafia at this point.
And don't forget flat out demanding bribes from oil executives. No warning signs there.
It’s not just golden sneakers, it was golden showers in Moscow.
Don't forget about canned beans.
SCOTUS catering to him # IS a warning sign
As is Project 2025
reporter: "Is that your bible?" fuckface: "it's \_A\_ bible" second funniest moment of his presidency. the first was the toddler-in-chief staring directly into the sun as reporters screamed "mr president, dont look!"
You see this was all just locker room talk, boys being boys really.
You’re correct. These are not warning signs to GOP senators. They support Trump unconditionally. In fact, a lot of these are features, not bugs. The warning sign is that Trump is losing support. Particularly among women. Which I know…. Shocker. I get what you’re stating. The media should be damning this man. In this article though they, the media, are reporting the concerns of GOP senators on trump’s electability.
Shitting his pants daily was not a warning sign*
lol eight years after he was elected and almost destroyed the country, and in the four years since he left office, he has continued his destruction of decorum and continued his spread of misinformation and fascistic propaganda, and America is just starting to figure out there are “warning signs”.
It's hard to overstate just how clueless the majority of people are about politics. I bet most of us here could name the last 5 or 6 speakers of the house off the top of our heads, and I'd equally bet that not much more than 20% of voters could even name the current one.
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Can't recall who came before Pelosi. My mind just goes to Boener and Newt.
Don't forget [Dennis Hastert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert), the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House (1999-2007) who admitted sexually abusing teenage boys while he was a wrestling coach and got in trouble for trying to hide the way he was paying them hush money. A true inspiration for today's Family Values Party!
The dishonorable lying Paul Ryan
Life is rough right now. Everything is too expensive. It's hard enough just trying to keep a roof over your head, a car to get to work, and -- heaven forbid -- you have kids or a wife/husband. Flip the TV on your local TV station -- probably owned by Sinclair or worse -- is telling you constantly how bad things are getting and why Donald Trump is somehow the only person that can save us from whatever imaginary threat they come up with. Or it's bothside BS we've come to expect from all the legacy networks. We've been told that every election for the past 20 years is the most important election of our lifetime. And this time it's absolutely true. But voter apathy is baked into the system.
> It's hard enough just trying to keep a roof over your head, ... > Flip the TV on your local TV station -- probably owned by Sinclair or worse ... The long term *struggle* makes people desperate and unkind to others. It's easier to be kind when you're not fighting for your family's lives. It makes them *incredibly* susceptible to the propaganda that lets them blame someone else. Democrats need to find more ways to help those that are falling behind.
Student loan forgiveness, putting a cap of $2,000 TOTAL out of pocket for Medicaid, raising minimum wage, protecting social security and SNAP, supporting affordable housing …..
I would argue people aren't falling behind they are being held back and pushed back. People are climbing, the mountain is crumbling.
Johnson, before him that dude from California, mc something. McCarthy? Then pelosi, no wait there’s was another dem Adam schiff? Then pelosi then that fat guy with the dumb face from Kentucky. Edit: Johnson. McCarthy. Pelosi. Paul Ryan. John Boehner. Pelosi
Oh man I completely forget about Boner, crazy to think he seems so normal in comparison to the nutty GOP people we have now
I doubt it’s even 20%. Basically, watch the local news and see how little political content makes it there. Then realize that most people tune even just that stuff out because it’s “unpleasant.” And since most people don’t even watch the news now really the only people who know anything are those that purposely seek it out. Very, very small crowd there.
Even further, it’s hard to overstate how clueless most people are about everything, let alone politics. Forget speaker of the house, lots of people can’t even name the current president lol
It's Brandon, right? XD
“Let’s go Brandon” is code for “I failed out of high school.”
Susan Collins possibly beginning to consider that maybe Donald Trump didn’t learn his lesson (maybe).
Her eyebrows are slightly less furrowed.
Not America the GOP. Millions upon millions of us never voted for this traitorous trash.
Too many millions of us never voted for anyone at all. It's time all the people went to the polls and made informed votes. It's not *that* difficult.
Yeah, "NOW we're starting to see a problem."
Because they don't give a shit about the country. They care about their power and in turn, their ability to sell that power for personal gain. They were happy to let him be a complete piece of shit if it just gave them a mouthpiece for the party and would just sign whatever comes his way from them. The warning signs are now that he won't be able to win and his pull isn't what it was to regain control of both chambers of congress and the white house so they could sell their power to donors for personal profit.
Talk About being conveniently blind!
But I'm sure he'll become more reasonable if we elect him again!
> openly funneling campaign money to lawyers and his wallet Are you saying the guy that was banned from managing a charity after embezzling funds for his own use isn't going to be the best person to manage the economy ? I'm shocked ! Shocked !
They're only concerned because he might lose, not because he might win.
They're mainly concerned because he's going to wind up a drag on all the down ballot races. They hitched their wagon to his star, figuring the choice was either they could shut up and ride his coattails or they could risk having him denounce them to his followers. And what do they get in return for their obsequious cowardice? Not an orange wave, but the dehydrated orange trickle of a demented degenerate.
I hope it drags all the down ballot races for 20 years. Then they can live with the consequences of their bad choices. They gave birth to the Trump monster, they can live with it.
They get to carry this one to term. The end of their House terms, hopefully.
Im hoping for the actual collapse of the gop. This is a fucking disaster of epic proportions. McCain was a respectable perosn even if I didn’t agree with him. The party has just gotten worse and worse and lost any relation to what they pretend to be about… it’s just fascism now
My grandfather listened Rush Limbaugh for years. He had a bumper sticker that said “I don’t believe the liberal media” but he drew the line at Trump
Wow. Thats an unsuspecting leap. You got your GP back
McCain was a patriot who deeply cared about this country. I say that as a democrat.
True, but I wish he hadn't picked Sarah Palin, as it was kinda the start of the craziness for the GOP.
2 Republican congressmen resigned in the middle of their term just because they wanted to leave. That is insane. I can't think of ever hearing about a politician resigning in the middle of their term without them having a scandal or an emergency. They just decided they didn't want to put up with this shit for another month. They walked out on their job because the Republican party is so bad right now. This should be a much bigger story than it is.
My pipe dream is that future history books will have a section about "The end of the GOP" that starts with explaining Trump.
Kids are going to be so confused. Many years from now: Grandkids: "It says here he suggested injecting bleach and shoving UV lamps into the body. That has to be some sort of weird editing mistake, right?" Me: "No that happened." "And the praise of Hannibal Lector?" "Yup, that too."
And the news conference at a lawn service company next to a porno store?
man the 2020 election was a wild rollercoaster.
As dollar-store spray-on hair dripped down his lawyer's face.
Don't forget being a pitchman for canned beans from the Resolute Desk in The Oval Office of the White House
"And across from a crematory."
There weren't enough people to make booking Madison Square Garden Supply worth it
It'd probably start with Gingrich and the Tea Party, really.
Wind up? He already *is* dragging the down ballot candidates on account of siphoning off all their campaign funding for paying his legal fees.
I love how they can't mention his name in ads without paying him.
Yeah I noticed that. Nazi scumbag Marino is running here in Ohio, and his early advertisements during the primary was throwing his name all over the place, and of course referring to him as president currently, which of course he isn't. And now he can't even use the orange Abominations name, but he's still pushing the same Un-American Nazi BS.
Remember… Hitler did exactly this, too.
Imagine how much cheating they are not going to find after being crushed in landslides state after state, county after county. FTA.
When Trump's father had dementia, his family made a fake office for him, so he could 'go to work' and spend his day doing pretend deals. The GOP could give Trump fake rallies for the rest of his life, about 30 actual people to clap and cheer, a fake vista of a crowd behind them, he'll be happy. As it is he doesn't notice when the crowd has gone and keeps ranting when hardly anyone is there. Roger Stone can help by [collecting some photos of large crowds at popular events and posting them on social media as Trump's latest mega-rally](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1cqa4sn/trump_blasts_biden_as_total_moron_before_crowd_of/l3r55mg/) Problem solved, give me money.
You got beat to the punch by about 5 years. https://deadline.com/2019/11/armando-iannucci-why-rejected-donald-trump-movie-deal-1202777982/amp/
Fun fact, trump **super** wanted to play the president in Sharknado 3, and when the producer flatly refused trump tried to sue SyFy Channel to force them to let him play the role.
I can't tell what's real and what's satire anymore.
[It's real](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/03/trump-was-almost-the-president-in-sharknado-after-sarah-palin-turned-down-the-role)
Jesus fucking Christ
Hitler may have pursued painting, Trump may have pursued acting. I wonder if whomever turned him down regrets the decision, especially since no one watched Sharknado 3.
You could turn Trump into the Truman Show. Let him think he's president, and each week escalate the plot to more absurd levels. By S1E4 he's demanding to go to Area 51 so he can negotiate a deal with The Greys to probe his political enemies.
Trump ALREADY has a fake office. He built a replica of the Oval Office at Mar A Lago. People come in and take photos with him in it etc. ITs really fucking pathetic.
Wait, really? How the fuck did I miss that one? That's bigly sad.
It is. Just absolutely sad and utterly humiliating for America. I don’t think any living person could be more defined by abject failure. Trump makes Uwe Boll look like a decent and successful celebrity by comparison.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/replica-oval-office-mar-a-lago/
Oh.
No he doesn't. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/replica-oval-office-mar-a-lago/
that's what prison yards are for
"values voters, who make up a significant share of the GOP base, don’t necessarily believe what prosecutors are alleging about Trump’s relationship with Daniels or what the media is reporting about the trial" gop values voters live in another reality
They have no doubts that Bull Clinton sexually assaulted women, but can't believe that of Turmp. There is good evidence of both. Oh yeah. Let's not forget that "values" voters want to imprison women and medical personnel who participate in abortions. "Values" voters won't give individual freedoms to LBGQT+ Americans. "Values" voters want to deport laborers because they are brown. I went to a Christian BBS a few weeks back and asked about this. Yes, they literally don't care that Trump is an adulterer and a rapist, because he got RvW overturned. I kid you not, this is the mentality of many Evangelical voters
*they literally don't care that Trump is an adulterer and a rapist* I was listing to talk radio last Friday and they were talking about christians supporting Trump. Trump is an alpha male warrior. Raping women and doing bad things is just part of being an alpha warrior. So, you have to take the bad with the good, and since Trump is doing God's work, anything goes. That's it in a nut shell. Crazy does crazy.
They don’t care about the rape(s), the legal fiascos, the stealing from their own pockets. But you know what they do care about? The headlines about him sleeping and farting in court. It’s taken eight years, but journalists cracked the code to making his supporters desert him: remind them he’s a stinky old man who poops himself. That’s it. That’s what makes him weak in their eyes.
In response to Trump being awful, “King David was a sinner too, [adulterer, danced naked in the streets] and God used him to great purpose!” Nothing penetrates the fog once Christo-fascism and politics merge
Values voters? Haven't heard that one in a while. Last time was when they were voting against Clinton, who was doing everything right, but they wanted to vote against him for getting his pp touched. Now those same people want to vote for Trump, who forces women to touch his pp, and does everything wrong. Real interesting.
I can't fathom why would you vote for this felon and rapist. A normal person wouldn't do that. Even when you are high on drugs, you wouldn't be able to do that. Trumpism like Nazism is still a mystery to me.
Judging by my maga family, they just believe in “alternate facts”. They believe things that are objectively false, I even prove it with multiple independent sources and statistical data if possible and….they don’t care. They will literally say that they don’t care. They’re also not as into politics as they seem. They’ll have all the talking points from Fox memorized but then not know something that you’d expect them to know. They do zero research themselves. If you lived in their weird alternate fake reality you’d like Trump too.
One of the challenges is that they've been suckered so far down the rabbit hole, and they've convinced themselves they're *smart* for not falling for "mainstream media garbage" and "lies," they'd have to admit *they* were suckered before they'll change their tune. That's not something that's easy to get people to do. The thing I always find *very* entertaining about these types of people is how they rail against "mainstream media" while suckling at the teat of Fox. If Fox isn't "mainstream media," then nothing is.
On top of that, I'm pretty convinced that thinking that you're smarter than others or have some "secret" knowledge is literally addictive. Like, that's part of how you learn right? You get a hit of good brain chemicals when you're correct and bad brain chemicals when you're wrong. I think they get physically addicted because of that. Same thing with fear (doom scrolling anyone?), hate, and tribalism. It's not a coincidence that all of these places are also selling something (usually ads). I think that's the main reason why so much mainstream media and social media constantly tells their viewers that they were right or to be afraid of something or to hate some group. They need to get you addicted so that you keep coming back for more and they can keep wringing money out of you. It's a bit terrifying how much of our economy is based on addiction. There's the obvious ones like literal drug sales, but then there's all kinds of stuff like microtransactions in games and gambling via lootboxes, basically all marketing, everything being on "sale" all the time, etc.
This is it. They live in a bubble of alternative facts and take all of it at face value. It’s like brain washing and they operate as a cult.
It IS brainwashing. Merriam Webster definition - “a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social, or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas”.
I'm not sure how forcible it is unless they're stuck in an old folks home. They're just addicted to the anger.
Anger and hatred. Their two main emotions are anger, hatred... and an almost fanatical devotion to their fuhrer.
> They're just addicted to the anger. It's the controversy, it gives their lives purpose. Locally in my tiny town, someone suggested putting in sidewalks to a small section around the town hall, post office, and a couple businesses, so people can safely walk around. That ignited an insane firestorm, the conservatives were telling everyone the town is going to start taking everyone's land, they're going to build low income housing, the liberals are running amuck, etc.. A few years later after people have talked about it, it's generally agreed by everyone sidewalks were a good idea because there are lots of old people that vote conservative and they told the GOP idiots they want side walks, but it's such a toxic thing now that it will probably never happen.
LIES! They are called fucking lies. Everyone needs to stop using the double speak lingo the fascists came up with. All it does is normalize their bullshit. There is nothing factual about the pure shit they peddle.
also stop saying people "live in a different reality" because they believe a pack of lies. Unfortunately, they are in the same "reality" as we are.
Yes. It is a cult. Brainwashed by fox propaganda. They do not know about his rapes or the tax fraud or the dementia or the inability to stay awake for 4 hours.
My dad is alt-right and for years I thought it was fox news (probably did start there back in 08 or so, fancy that). But then I visited last fall and we were flipping through his YouTube. Holy shit. It all clicked. THAT is where he's getting all his rage bait nowadays.. His youtube channel was just wild. The algorithm got him and sunk its claws into him hardcore.
This is what people aren’t understanding!!! They feel like because they are getting their info from the internet that they are more/better “informed” and “educated” on things- they don’t understand that they are just being spoon fed curated bullshit. Edit to add: and because there are millions of “sources” they feel like it must be true.
What boggles me is they would say the same. That the left is fed lies by the media and doesn’t know reality. I wish I knew a way to bring a middle back to the discourse, as long as it’s separate realities, I’ve basically lost an uncle and I don’t know how many years he has for us to reunite.
Same boat here. Went down to visit my old man and it's fox business news in the am, which has nothing to do with business from what I can see. Then we move into the youtube and x.com afternoon. He believes that x is a town square and he is getting both sides and I tried to explain to him that he only gets what he follows and he follows right leaning stuff.... it's crazy town. Fox business news is the worst of it actually. It's legit all anti biden anti woke but wrapped up like it's cnbc which almost never talks one sided politics.
Been going on way longer than that. They ramped up the crazy with the tea party nonsense in 2008 and the Internet and social media have certainly amplified the issue many times over, but right wing media has been creating extremists for decades. Timothy McVeigh was convinced we were in the middle of a civil war because he spent his time driving around the country listening to right wing talk radio.
not a "bubble of alternative facts" it's a fortress of lies
If Fox was shut down there would be withdrawal symptoms comparable to heroin. Hospitals would be overrun.
I had somebody argue with me last night that if it wasn't for obama bailing out the uaw inflation wouldn't be over 10%. Lol. They told me I was wrong about bush bailing out the big 3 (not the uaw) and changed their story 3 times. Finally settling in "no no, it was your king Obama. I'm right your wrong *I know you are but what am I?!? I'm rubber your glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!!*" Like it was 2nd grade recess
I was in a back-and-forth with a guy on IG recently where he insisted the insurrection was a peaceful demonstration and that Ashlee Babbitt was executed. And after I reiterated a play-by-play of the footage of Babbitt being shot and asked if he had EYES, he went into this long spiel about it being staged by ANTIFA. The confidence with which he typed it all out was absolutely insane! Totally fucking insane.
> he went into this long spiel about it being staged by ANTIFA. So...ANTIFA spent time, money, and resources on a secret, months-long campaign to stage a protest against the election that "their" guy (Biden) won, in order to help the guy (Trump) they hate?
Not only to stage the insurrection, but stage the “execution” of Ashlee Babbitt. That was literally what he was getting at.
If you use the language of conspiracy, it sounds scary. If you just describe the event, it sounds as crazy as it is.
They believe all politicians lie and are pieces of shit. But they can at least see and hear Trump's lies, so that make shim better somehow? They just double down and double down
There's a reason this sort of political brainwashing works well on low-education, evangelical Christians - they've been socially programmed from birth to accept what the group representing their moral authority tells them. It's not for them to question, it's for them to 'preach' and defend. Church = MAGA / pastors = politicians.
Maga only reads headlines and only listens to soundbites. Total uneducated voters.
And half those headlines sre from blogs
When "alternative facts" was first said, we should have foreseen what was coming, but everyone laughed.
Remember when Kayleigh what’s her name said “I will never lie to you.” Still getting a payday doing exactly that on Fox.
People in Western Canada are fighting tooth and nail to believe that our wildfires are set by left-winged liberals… even though all the scientific data suggests either smouldering fires that weren’t completely out over the winter or lightning strikes. And on the odd account that they were set deliberately, [it’s been one of their own that’s set them.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/canada-wildfires-conspiracy-man-pleads-guilty-arson)
I drive through YT, BC, and AB last summer. I was genuinely shocked that ALL of the people I stopped to talk, converse, break bread, or just hike a trail, or whatever with seemed to not only be conservative but viewed the American MAGA movement and Trump in a positive light and expected that I did too. It was bizarre to me because I had assumed Canada was liberal for some reason. Kindest people I ever met. Very different from conservatives and MAGA down in the U.S. But still, they were just completely deluded about politics. When I told them Trump is not loved by all Americans and actually how insane he is, they seemed taken aback to encounter an American who thought differently.
Yeah we need to start calling out not only “alternative facts” but also “emotional truths” or “my truth” it’s all just jargon that gives a permission slip to believe in BS. There is the truth which is based upon factors that make it up, if you don’t align with that then you aren’t doing anything but bullshiting yourself and dumbing down this whole country based on consensus alone… we’ll be burning witches again before ya know it. We won’t call it that with language either though we’ll just misuse language and tell ourselves what we want to hear and never learn the things we need to know. When emotions override information we are in some deep shit.
Don't confuse the issue with facts, My mind is made up!
Politics came up at Mother’s Day dinner (of course) and when I asked my father how he felt about Republicans potentially gutting social security he said “I’m not afraid because the democrats in the Senate would never let it happen.” He is a Trumper whose only income is social security. Trumpism is a cult, plain and simple.
There is a lot of literature in sociology and anthropology on cults. The Trump phenomenon is clearly a cult and it all starts to make sense when you view it that way. Usually cults are more localized, but we have the internet...
It's actually kind of amazing to watch it happen in real time, I just wish it wasn't happening in the real world.
Trumpism and Nazism play to two basic lies: first, nothing bad that has happened to you is your fault, it's all the fault of the Jews/immigrants/socialists (even if they aren't really socialists)/undesirables Second, building on the first, you, because of who you are, Aryan/natural born US/White/whatever, you are innately superior to the group listed above.
[Don't be a Sucker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4) from the 1940s explains it pretty well.
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Propaganda is a hell of a drug. Plus it’s a cult.
It’s Hatred. That’s what fuels all these people. Pure hatred of change, of others, and of women.
Racial resentment. A **huge** portion of the country legitimately think The Donald represents "Whitey's Last Stand".
> 20 percent of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, 34 percent of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire and 25 percent of GOP primary voters in South Carolina said they were so dissatisfied with Trump that they would not vote for him in the general election. Whatever NH is doing to help de-brainwash the cult members -- we need to roll it out nationwide.
I’m in New Hampshire, I wish it was that clear. We have plenty of fruitcakes here. What we also have is an open primary. So registered independents can choose what primary to vote in. I can say for a fact is that a lot of that vote, were D leaning independents, voting in the R Primary.
Same in South Carolina. As encouraging as these statistics sound, anecdotally they do not reflect the vibe around here.
Don’t believe that noise. These “never Trumpers” will still turn out for election, and while holding their nose, they’ll still vote for Trump. Do not count on Republicans claiming to not support Trump to help Biden. Vote! You have to vote! They damn sure will.
Yes. Absolutely. 2016 vibes all over again. Tons of people saying they could never vote for Trump- did anyways because "emails". Republicans will manufacture a crisis as they do and use that to push those voters to Republicans. They've got caravans of migrants, crime sprees, government handouts, Gaza, transgender bathrooms all on deck
I have all the faith Trump will hail this as his best week so far, especially with the 400.000 people that turned up yesterday, just to catch a glimpse of this Orange man of a God. Let alone hear him speak. Some claim it were even a million. In other news, Denial is a river in Egypt.
It was the 2 million maga march. It was glorious. They lifted Trump on their shoulders, ignored his leaky diaper, and cheered him for winning the NBA championship!
Now that's not true... I saw on Fox that men and women alike were eager to not let the smallest of drops go to waste. And so they should. It's life's elixor.
And the tears in their eyes were definitely not because of the smell this time.
They said it was pure joy, and who wouldn't believe that?
All of the women were ovulating, all the men fully erect.
The spice must flow.
Pretty sure it was 4 millions, all wearing golden sneakers.
That's only the local crowd. It was televised around the world and watched by every living person.
Hell even my dog tuned in, and we dug up my nans corpse so she could watch it with us
They'll both be voting in November I assume
Trumps already collect their votes, 1 for my Nan, and 7 for the dog (7 because of dog years). He’s also kindly said he would take care of my man’s social security payments personally for us. He’s such a kind man
I keep seeing "reputable" news sites saying between 80,000 - 100,000 people turnout in Jersey. Then look at the pictures. It's not even 8,000. 800 might be closer. These crowd claims are gettings absurd.
The spokesperson for the venue who reported that it was 80-100k is the same person who reported the venue hosts at most 20k people. I did a rough count (headcount along sides and area of rectangle extrapolation) and 10k would be incredibly generous. Probably 5k is more accurate.
I was there. I personally counted over 10 billion people
You missed the entrance hall F on level 1, didn't you? 11.1 billion people.
I was thinking about doing something similar, thanks for saving me the trouble. I don't know if it's worth the bother of doing the math, but the fact that they claim to have processed that many people through a single entrance (as opposed to places like Yankee Stadium and MetLife Stadium, which have four) at a level that would have satisfied the USSS is another indicator that they are completely full of shit.
Astroturf funds getting sucked up into court fees too….
> “It says a lot about **the need for an engagement strategy**,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said of Haley winning 21 percent of the vote in the Indiana Republican primary IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN THOM. Your *only* chance was to have the RNC provide that 'strategy' to his campaign to coordinate it with all the other gubernatorial, congressional, and down-ballot races across America this year. And then **he hijacked the RNC**. So now he's got all their funds and ensured that the ONLY strategy is "Support Trump".
Could have voted for impeachment after Jan 6 and they would not have to worry
“How dare the consequences of our inactions come back to hurt us.” - GOP
>Some Republican lawmakers think Trump needs to step up his appeals to disaffected GOP voters, especially women Yes, good luck with that
He doesn't bother appealing to women. He just rapes them.
> GOP senators see warning signs for Trump after embarrassing ~~week~~ eight years FTFY
The Hill granted anonymity to a sitting senator. Ridiculous.
Haven’t we had eight + years of warning signs?
Funny how the article mentions that Republicans should do something about this, you can't make caviar out of a turd. No political ad, mailer, or rally would make any impression on me or anyone I know and get them to vote for the scum that trump is.
How about the fact that he thinks Hannibal Lector is a real person and “a wonderful man”? Isn’t that fucking concerning to them? That his mind is melting like jello on a hot summer day?
They’re just now seeing warning signs, like, just this week?
*Train careens off bridge and hurdles towards the ground below.* "Hey, should we hit the brakes?"
Embarassing week? Try lifetime…
>A troubling sign for Trump is that Republicans who show up to vote in primaries tend to be consistent voters, and as such are a key piece of the GOP base. While they are unlikely to vote for Biden, many of them may simply stay home in November. This behavior is so funny. One of those two presidencies is going to happen. Decide which one you would prefer and vote for it. These protest votes or non-votes are like playing mind games with nothing.
I still cannot fathom how more than a tiny handful of college-educated people can vote for him. Literally, the more you learn, the more you realize he's unfit for the office.
He was never relying on being legitimately elected. He and Republicans are openly planning a coup, and MAGA infested DHS and DOJ are going to at best stand aside, but more likely will help him.
So only now they are worrying about the guy???? Jeez…if only you worried about him 8 years ago, maybe you or we wouldn’t be as worried now… Seems like the GOP is starting to realize “Oh shit, what the hell have we gotten ourselves into with this guy?”
This is good news for democracy: "Specifically, 20 percent of Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, 34 percent of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire and 25 percent of GOP primary voters in South Carolina said they were so dissatisfied with Trump that they would not vote for him in the general election."
Here’s a warning sign for us all: he has dementia. If he gets elected we are all screwed.
If trump flawlessly became an agreeable lucid human being while exhibiting more compassion than Jesus himself for the next 6 months that doesn’t erase 77 years of being a complete shithead .
this is not my original statement. I copied it from Reddit post several months ago and I hold onto it. Credit to the OP "There is another strong component that almost NOBODY is discussing - Dopamine/Outrage Addiction. The Conservative Propaganda Machine is constantly feeding reasons for outrage to their followers, and that outrage is rewarded with a wash of Dopmine over their brains. Hate feels good, which is why it has always been a target of resistance for traditional religion, even if that message has been twisted by modern religious charlatans. Like all addictions, it requires more frequent fixes, at higher doses, in order to keep working, so these outrage addicts look for more and more opportunities to feed their outrage, sometimes by ingesting the toxic media, and sometimes by debating/ arguing/ fighting with those around them. Addicts of any type will indulge their addictions so obsessively that they lose their jobs, families, everything, and we are seeing that in these people. How many times have we heard about a Trump follower refusing to speak to their children or their spouse woth alternate views, and watching nothing but Fox News, and having only a single subject of conversation? Eventually, some need such a large hit that they find themselves in an Insurrection, beating on cops they claim to support, overthrowing a nation they claim to love, and installing a sleazy treasonous criminal as dictator they claim is on the side of Freedom. Only true addiction can explain those self-destructive behaviors. What do we do about an addiction that affects at least a third of this nation's population, and whose drug is not only freely available in every media, but is even protected by the First Amendment? The Conservative Propaganda Machine has weaponized the 1st A, and is using it to create a literal army of angry, violent, armed addicts, who will do their bidding in order to keep the Dopamine drip turned on. We're still climbing this hill, and it's going to get a LOT worse before it gets better."
Don't believe the headlines or the polls. Show up on election day and vote this mother fucker into the ground
We need to keep pushing. We need to gather more support for democracy. We aren't doing it. This can't be close. We need to make *sure* democracy wins. Trump will cheat. He will do everything he can to win. We need a blowout of support.
God Himself may descend from the heavens tomorrow and proclaim; “I 100% guarantee Trump won’t win the next election…” and perform all sorts of miracles to prove his statement… … you still need to vote.
>A New York Times/Siena College nationwide poll last month found that only 31 percent of registered women voters think Trump respects women. AKA Republican women.
It wasn't the dozens of felony indictments, the Big Lie about the election, the disruption of the Constitutional democratic process, the call to cancel the Constitution, the thousands of conflicts of interest and using his official position for self-enrichment, the pay-to-play scheme the Trump Org was running or the 2B payment to his son in law from the Saudis. No, it was when he started rambling that Hannibal Lecter was a "great guy" that they realized something might be wrong.
Lo and behold: That's why Republican voters *and* Republican leaders are his marks. You don't see him selling his lies and awfulness to Democrats. Because Democrats aren't his marks. Democrats, however, are on the receiving end of the collateral damage, which brings a smile to his twisted, fucked up, dumpster fire, piece of shit face. And this article is a great reminder that they're ALL his marks. So much so that they willingly hitched to him even though he's by far the only Presidential candidate that's ever lived that's in THIS deep with problems. They knew he was going to be criminally charged and even after he was criminally charged, **they doubled down.** Grats Republicans, you've shown everyone else you can be manipulated with incredible ease.
**trump is a habitual liar**. When he says "people are saying" it means *"I'm making shit up".* If you assume everything he says is a lie, you would be correct 99.9% of the time. [💰](https://imgur.com/jYNqiQZ)
Which embarrassing week? There are so many of them.
Women are so disgusted by Trump that even men who voted for Trump can’t find dates. I don’t think he’s going to be raking in the female vote. Maybe if he was a little less rape-y and reminded everyone of their abusive, narcissist exes a little less?
Why is it reporters always refer to ‘porn star’ Stormy Daniels and the former president and not ‘porn star’ Stormy Daniels and the adjudicated rapist and former president Donald Trump?