"I want the world to know that I followed a cult leader."

[berg80]

Almost everyone (except me of course) is doing the nation a disservice, most notably the government. No one wastes money, effort, and time like our government. Even the Constitution can't protect us from our own government.

We the people are responsible for the government we have. Government is not an abstraction. It is an entity under our control if we are willing to put the time and effort in to controlling it.

 

[berg80]

Feedback loop….

Three Republicans took the Democratic National Convention stage on its second night to explain why they broke away from the party of Donald Trump, and urged their fellow Republicans to back Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

“I saw him when the cameras were off. Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them ‘basement dwellers,’” said former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth. He used to tell me, ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you,’” Grisham recalled.

Describing herself as a “true believer” in Trump’s MAGA movement, and one of the former president’s “closest advisors,” spending holidays with his family at Mar-a-Lago.

After serving as Trump’s press secretary for nine months, Grisham was named First Lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff. She resigned from that post on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/former-trump-supporters-tell-republicans-to-vote-harris-at-dnc.html

Hell hath no fury like a cultist scorned.

 

[berg80]

There have no doubt been members of prior admins who felt disillusioned by the admin they worked for. Perhaps because they were too idealistic about what would be accomplished.

What we are seeing with former members of the trump admin is a different animal. They were repulsed by what they saw from trump. Namely, a lack of decency, intellectual rigor, honesty, and a constant focus on manipulating people. The last thing on his mind being making the US a better place to live in.

 

[Woodznutz]

We the people are responsible for the government we have. Government is not an abstraction. It is an entity under our control if we are willing to put the time and effort in to controlling it.

We give up control when we elect people to represent us, then they don't represent us. What is important to the people is of little interest to our representatives.

 

[westwall]

Agreed. The idea of the end of trumpery makes me positively giddy.

No, the idea that you are so stupid you can't understand that it is you who are in the cult.

 

[berg80]

What is important to the people is of little interest to our representatives.

When that is true the remedy is not voting for them.

 

[berg80]

No, the idea that you are so stupid you can't understand that it is you who are in the cult.

 

[westwall]

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That's a bunch of people mocking YOU, you stupid twit.

 

[j-mac]

Three Republicans took the Democratic National Convention stage on its second night to explain why they broke away from the party of Donald Trump, and urged their fellow Republicans to back Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

“I saw him when the cameras were off. Behind closed doors, Trump mocks his supporters. He calls them ‘basement dwellers,’” said former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

“He has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth. He used to tell me, ‘It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you,’” Grisham recalled.

Describing herself as a “true believer” in Trump’s MAGA movement, and one of the former president’s “closest advisors,” spending holidays with his family at Mar-a-Lago.

After serving as Trump’s press secretary for nine months, Grisham was named First Lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff. She resigned from that post on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/20/former-trump-supporters-tell-republicans-to-vote-harris-at-dnc.html

Hell hath no fury like a cultist scorned.

You people are not going to win on hating Trump….

 

[berg80]

That's a bunch of people mocking YOU, you stupid twit.

If that was their intent it backfired given wearing the bandages was the most overt example of cultish behavior in the history of US politics.

 

[berg80]

You people are not going to win on hating Trump….

That's why the Harris/Walz campaign is focused on the future, on inclusion, on realizing the nation's potential if we are willing to unite behind a common purpose that benefits all of us. Not on the dark vision of trump. Intolerance, retribution, and the abuse of power.

 

[berg80]

A Key Jan. 6 Figure Pleads Guilty, Saying She Urged Oath Keepers To Delete Texts​

You can divide people who took Donald Trump’s claims that he actually won the 2020 election into roughly two camps: those who were in the know, and the true believers.

If less charitably inclined, you might call this a divide between the con artists and those who they duped. On one side are politicians, conservative movement insiders, activists, and others who played and continue to play along with the farce that the election was stolen; on the other are legions of people who took them at their word, and believed them. It’s an appeal, directed from the top downwards, to the paranoid style in American politics.

The Oath Keepers, the anti-government militia whose leadership was convicted of seditious conspiracy over its role in the Capitol breach, present an interesting example of this. On the one hand, you have a figure like Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. It’s clear from Rhodes’ statements before the election, his actions, and virtually everything about him that he was committed to demolishing the American state in its current form. Trump’s bogus election fraud claims may have been a vehicle to that end, but Rhodes was on a mission that was his own.

A Key Jan. 6 Figure Pleads Guilty, Saying She Urged Oath Keepers To Delete Texts

You can divide people who took Donald Trump's claims that he actually won the 2020 election into roughly two camps: those who were in the know, and the true believers. If less charitably inclined…

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trump's minions, ones who post regularly on this board, they are not the con artists........they're the ones who have been duped.

 

[westwall]

If that was their intent it backfired given wearing the bandages was the most overt example of cultish behavior in the history of US politics.

Not really. Look at you STILL huperventilating!

 

[blackhawk]

TDSSSDD.

 

[j-mac]

That's why the Harris/Walz campaign is focused on the future, on inclusion, on realizing the nation's potential if we are willing to unite behind a common purpose that benefits all of us. Not on the dark vision of trump. Intolerance, retribution, and the abuse of power.

Oh? Link us to CommieLa’s policy page, if you would…Hint: She doesn’t have one…

 

[Godboy]

Stop believing the right wing media propaganda.

Kamala will open the flood gates at the border, she will go whichever way the political winds blow at any given moment when it comes to the wars, so those are guaranteed to be disasters, and she is going to want to waste TRILLIONS of dollars on a bunch of progressive horseshit. She wont make even the slightest effort to combat overspending. She has never even spoken about printing money and how its bad for the economy. She will be VERY bad for our nation, and that is simply a fact.

 

[Woodznutz]

My advice, think for yourself. Stop believing the right wing media propaganda.

Contemplating US politics without the stain of trumpery is what is making Dems so enthusiastic about the election.

I think their enthusiasm comes from realizing that their nominee, if elected, probably won't die in office.

 

[Woodznutz]

Oh? Link us to CommieLa’s policy page, if you would…Hint: She doesn’t have one…

She may be waiting to see if her party will be in power in Congress. Why write checks that may not be cashable.