Oh boo hoo. I suppose the left has been nothing but sweet and tolerant for the past 4 years, right?
"The left"?
This isn't about "politics". This is a CULT. Read the post I just quoted.
Then think about the yahoos plotting to KIDNAP AND EXECUTE a governor.
"Very fine people". "Stand by". "Beat the crap out of 'em". Running cars off the road. We could go on and on.
This isn't about "politics". This is a CULT. Read the post I just quoted.
Its not a cult. People are just as loyal to trump as there are people loyal to Biden. I don't understand how people can put labels only on one side, when the other side are just as much loyal to their guy.
Whelp --- when you have obedient cult followers scrambling all over themselves to defend their orange messiach at the slightest hint of any criticism at all right down to frickin' JOKES, when you have obsequious bootlickers parroting the orange messiach's easily-debunked denialist bullshit theories IN SPITE OF the numbers and facts right in front of them ----- that's an
emotional investment. An emotional investment at a level that outright denies realities. And when you're looking at that, you is looking at a cult, pure and simple. You're in Jim Jones territory. For fuck's sake you have these lemmings right here on this board, threatening their fellow citizens with violence, for no reason any more tangible than that Orange Crash said so. That is in fact what this thread is ABOUT.
And yet the poster I quoted actually tried to hide it behind "politics". So I called her on it.
Matter of fact you just committed the same gaffe "why do left-wingers...". Intentional blindness. More than a few of y'all are always desperate to try to spin all this into some kind of "political" situation, presumably because you can't handle it on its real basis.
From our temporal perspective we look back at the Germany of the 1930s and ask, "how could a nation blindly go along with that?". Whelp, that's the same thing the world of tomorrow will be asking --- indeed the rest of the world is already asking it.
I'll be damned if I can come up with an answer.
Whelp --- when you have obedient cult followers scrambling all over themselves to defend their orange messiach at the slightest hint of any criticism at all right down to frickin' JOKES, when you have obsequious bootlickers parroting the orange messiach's easily-debunked denialist bullshit theories IN SPITE OF the numbers and facts right in front of them ----- that's an emotional investment. An emotional investment at a level that outright denies realities. And when you're looking at that, you is looking at a cult, pure and simple.
Interesting, because the same thing applies to biden and his supporters. There are things that have come out about biden, things that have some evidence, or at least some suspicious looking information, and the left denies and defends it to their very core.
You call right wingers cultists for the very same thing
This is the point where I went right to sleep, since you're still hung up on this "politics/left-right" malarkey. Which shows me that you're not even reading the post you quote, so why should I bother.
But say speaking of cult followers, since we both know that proper names are capitalized in English, how is it the only time you do that is on the name "Trump"?
This is the point where I went right to sleep, since you're still hung up on this "politics/left-right" malarkey. Which shows me that you're not even reading the post you quote, so why should I bother
Isn't that what this thread is about? The OP wanted to call out the
rights [sic call for violence
See what I mean? You just did it AGAIN. It's like this all sails right over your head. Or you duck.
Read the thread title and explain to me where it says anything about "the right".
And there we are, right back to "cult". Which is short for "cult of personality". "The right" and "the left" are not personalities. GET IT?
Thread title:
"Trumpers are threatening violence"
That signifies "the right" to me.
See, that's your problem right there. Conflating "politics" and "personalities". Cult followers don't equate to a political position. And perhaps you've been "away" when masses of those on "the right" mobilized to resist and replace Rump, all along. The George Wills, the Bushes, the Lincoln Project?
Ok, sure, I understand that not all people on the right follow trump, but pretty much all people who follow trump are on "the right". Perhaps when i wrote my post. I should have replaced "the right" and "the left" with "trump followers" and "biden followers".
Indeed, as the thread started originally. Because a cult follower is IN NO WAY the same as "the right" or "the left". It isn't even political at all --- it's PERSONAL. Always has been. It's about
character, not 'politics'.
And that's what this conflict has always been --- PERSONAL. Rump clearly has no politics. He'll say whatever makes the minions froth at the mouth and then turn around and deny he just said that. His only concern is "ME ME ME AND DID I MENTION ME" and manipulating other poor saps into fellating his ego even further, e.g. "beat the crap out of 'em", e.g. "stand back and stand by" e.g. "very fine people" e.g. egging yahoos to storm their state capitals, e.g. pepperspraying a peaceful assembly so he can take a picture holding a bible upside down in front of a church where he wasn't welcome anyway.. Notice that he NEVER involves himself directly in ANY of this. He sprayed no pepper himself, he beat the crap out of nobody himself, he drove no cars into people himself, he stormed no Lansings himself.
Cult followers did all of that. Because they hear and obey.
He does it because it gets him off.
THAT IS A CULT, plain and simple.
Btw when you say "not all people on the right follow trump, but pretty much all people who follow trump are on "the right"', it's akin to when i point out "not all of those on "the right" are racists, but those who are racists are on "the right'". In both cases, true but not relevant as
causation.
When the "biden supporters" call trump followers "a cult", they are referring to the definition of a cult, which is misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
Correct, and that's putting it mildly. You left out that such a following will outright deny reality and descend into violence for that cult. Call it the way it is. And it's not "biden [sic] supporters" using this obvious description --- this has been well known for FIVE YEARS, long before there was a "biden [sic]" in the picture. The cult goes all the way back to the "knock the hell" daze.
Even if you are talking cult if personality, its essentially the same thing. Again, I was pointing out, as in your post, when you called them a cult, that the "biden supporters" do the exact same thing.
Uh... really.
Show us where "Biden supporters" suckerpunched protesters at a Biden event. Show us where they strapped on guns and stormed their state capitals and/or threatened to kidnap and execute governors. Show us where they stand idly by while Biden spews a torrent of made-up bullshit and mind-numbingly murmur "yes master, we hear and obey". Show us where Biden sends a torrent of whiny tweets at some critic whereupon his mysterious 'cult followers' fall all over themselves to parrot the same thing on command, even oozing onto this board to try to tell us with a straight fact that no Rump was not mocking that reporter's congenital disability. Obviously it's NOT AT ALL the same thing.
Don't sit here and peddle hallucinations. We know better. And AGAIN all this shitflinging was going on WAY before Biden was even in the picture, way before the primaries. It's been going on --- again---- for FIVE YEARS.
*NONE* of this is about "biden [sic]", desperately as you cultists try to make it that way. It's about Rump and it's always been about Rump,
because that's where the cult is.
See, that's your problem right there. Conflating "politics" and "personalities". Cult followers don't equate to a political position. And perhaps you've been "away" when masses of those on "the right" mobilized to resist and replace Rump, all along. The George Wills, the Bushes, the Lincoln Project
George will? Lincoln project? Never trumpers?
I disagree with your assertion that people follow trump because of who he is. They follow him because he wasnt Hillary Clinton. Had anyone else won in 2016 from the republican party, "the right" would be following them. Its not about trump per se as much as it is about not wanting democratic control to be attained.
Sure, there are those who like his crass style, his unconventional demeanor. Some people were looking for anyone who wasn't just like all the others.....establishment politicians. They wanted someone who was rough around the edges, but again, if ANYONE else from the republican party had won in 2016, they would have gladly followed them as well.
And that's what this conflict has always been --- PERSONAL. Rump clearly has no politics. He'll say whatever makes the minions froth at the mouth and then turn around and deny he just said that. His only concern is "ME ME ME AND DID I MENTION ME" and manipulating other poor saps into fellating his ego even further
Sure, ill agree that trump is a bit narsaccistic, but every president likes to tout their achievements. Most of them are not as boisterous as trump is about it, ill give you that, but they all pat themselves on the back.
"beat the crap out of 'em
I agree, it was not right of him to incite that.
Again, as I've stated already, nobody knows what that meant. The left wing media did alot of assuming (conveniently), because that is what they wanted to put into the heads of their viewers and listeners.
Trump could have just fumbled the words, who knows. We shouldn't just assume what's going on in his head. Its the same during the 2016 debate when he said "blood coming from..wherever". The left had a field day with that...though they had no clue what he meant. They just fabricated a narrative and pushed it.
Did anyone stop to think...hmm, maybe he just ran out of ideas after saying "nose and eyes". Maybe he didn't want to pursue that statement any further and just wanted to end it.
Point is, we don't know what he meant in either instance.
Again, already explained. Watch the whole clip for proper context.
egging yahoos to storm their state capitals
Ok, I must have missed that. Point me to a link where trump instructs people to storm the calitals.
pepperspraying a peaceful assembly so he can take a picture holding a bible upside down in front of a church where he wasn't welcome anyway
Were the protesters in an area where the president was going to be? I'm not saying what he did was right, but, if potus was coming through and there were protesters in the way, then secret service is going to clear a path.
Notice that he NEVER involves himself directly in ANY of this. He sprayed no pepper himself, he beat the crap out of nobody himself, he drove no cars into people himself, he stormed no Lansings himself. Cult followers did all of that. Because they hear and obey.He does it because it gets him off.
Yeah, just like Maxine waters didn't go out and form a crowd and get in the faces of people, but she called for it.
Just like kamala Harris when she said the riots are not going to stop...but she didn't actually get out there and riot.
it's akin to when i point out "not all of those on "the right" are racists, but those who are racists are on "the right'"
Thats both incorrect and unproveable. Just because left wing media likes to paint all Republicans as racist (and they do), doesn't mean any of it is true. Also, im sure there are plenty of racists who are democrats, the only difference is, you don't have media types talking about it 24/7.
Racism exists, we know that, but you can't pat yourself on the back and claim moral superiority, because the left has just as much a problem with being racist.
Correct, and that's putting it mildly. You left out that such a following will outright deny reality and descend into violence for that cult
Both sides are at fault for committing violence.
Show us where "Biden supporters" suckerpunched protesters at a Biden event
Notice if trump supporters show up to biden events, seems like they generally protest outside and don't really go in to cause a scene inside the event. However, we see that biden supporters like to disrupt trump events and cause problems. We've seen this multiple times, and most recently in Washington. Again, as I've pointed out.
Show us where they strapped on guns and stormed their state capitals and/or threatened to kidnap and execute governors
Who stormed the capitals? Where did anyone threaten to execute Whitmer?
Show us where they stand idly by while Biden spews a torrent of made-up bullshit and mind-numbingly murmur "yes master, we hear and obey"
I've never seen anything like that. Yes, supporters are going to cheer for their candidate, just as bidens do, but "hear and obey"? I think that is an image you have in your head, likely influenced by a left wing talk show host.
Show us where Biden sends a torrent of whiny tweets at some critic whereupon his mysterious 'cult followers' fall all over themselves to parrot the same thing on command
I've never been a fan of trump being able to tweet whatever he wants. I've said before, he should probably be moderated on his tweeting. Having said that, "parroting" is nothing new, both sides do it.
even oozing onto this board to try to tell us with a straight fact that no Rump was not mocking that reporter's congenital disability
I admit, that looks bad, and I agree, he shouldn't have done it.
NONE* of this is about "biden [sic]", desperately as you cultists try to make it that way. It's about Rump and it's always been about Rump, because that's where the cult
Again, I disagree with the "cult" assessment. Each side has their fanatics, but overall, its just people cheering their candidate.
I really don't know how we got so long winded on this topic. You made a post, I disputed it, and then you went way off on other things.
My point was in replying to your post, that there is violence on both sides, from what I've seen, those on the left seem to be a bit more prone and active about their violence, but both sides are guilty.
You made a list of things you claimed trump supporters did, and called them a cult. I disagree that they are a cult, for reasons already explained, and I also showed that, people on the left were also guilty of spreading hate and violence .
Thats really all I was trying to say.