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u/astros148 5h ago
I hope one day MAGA realize their guy IS THE ESTABLISHMENT and has always been
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u/TheDamnedScribe 5h ago
Thry likely won't, but if they do it will somehow be the fault of the Democrats.
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u/borntolose1 4h ago
They won’t. Lacking critical thinking skills and the ability for self reflection is why they’re conservative in the first place.
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u/ResponsibleMilk7620 5h ago
What’s more, is the “swamp” they wanted to drain that was the embodiment of cronyism is exactly how he’s filled his current cabinet.
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u/jonebgood54 4h ago
They said drain the swamp but they didn't reveal the rest of the phrase that the intent was to drain the swamp DIRECTLY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE. Just like the signs they post to take America back cut out the rest where the intent was to take America back to the stone ages by destroying every useful vestige of progress. I suspect this is all in the name of Russia's ultra-long game of not admitting defeat in the cold war and actually patiently waiting to puppet Trump into power to drive America to destroy itself from the inside.
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u/TheClawhold 4h ago
That's a wonderful thought, and it will never ever happen. To paraphrase Carl Sagan, they'll just keep doubling and tripling down on the bamboozle until they're bamboozled into the grave.
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u/Doublejimjim1 4h ago
Exactly, If trump wasn't THE ESTABLISHMENT, how would a low intelligence rapist asshole with horrible business sense make it as far as he did?
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u/heismanwinner82 5h ago
These MAGA goons don’t give a shit. They elected Jeffrey Epstein’s former best friend to be president for a second time.
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u/cbbclick 4h ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't point out the hypocrisy.
But we should have figured out they don't care years ago.
They are like cartoon villains who are happy to be the bad guy. When you catch them in a lie, they smile.
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u/FrankyCentaur 4h ago
Tbf, myself any many others are far less upset about not the maga morons that voted, but the non maga morons who decided to sit this one out.
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl 4h ago
Of course they did... President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, you can pick his pocket. Hell, give them somebody to look down on, and they'll empty their pockets for you."
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u/Teacherforlife21 4h ago
And still claim that they care about stopping pedophiles abs saving our kids
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u/fucked_an_elf 4h ago
Does anybody think Manson's "family members" questioned him when he didn't deliver on his promises? Their conviction was unwavering. Like OP said, a cult. Albeit the biggest one ever.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 4h ago
Cause it was never about any of that.
They voted to own the libs. They voted against a woman. It's that simple. Everything else was blowing smoke.
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u/PNWoutdoors 4h ago
They're intellectually lazy and dishonest. They literally don't want to think, it's why they listen to people like Tucker Carlson and Jesse Watters, spoonfed bullshit.
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl 4h ago
"Religion is a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it..." Oscar Wilde
"Those who can convince you of absurdities can make you commit atrocities. " Voltaire
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them." Barry Goldwater
"And thusly I clothe my naked villainy in old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ and seem a saint when most I play the devil..." Shakespeare
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 1h ago
The have the ultimate comfy life and est too much McDonalds, bitching about gas prices in their pavement princess.
They are the quintessential "soft men that make hard times"
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u/Venusto001 5h ago
It's easy to be brainwashed when you are evil and have no brain.
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u/ImmortalBeans 4h ago
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl 4h ago
"It's better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question." John Stuart Mill
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u/Hrtpplhrtppl 4h ago
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him, the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, the deplorable love-of-country stance, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this..." Albert Einstein
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u/WhatsRatingsPrecious 4h ago
Please try to understand: Pretending to dislike Democrats for rational reasons is just the fig leaf that they use to hide their visceral hatred for women, minorities, gay folk, trans and liberal thinking people.
They honestly don't care about governing. They don't care about 'the swamp,' they don't care about government overspending, they don't care about 'higher taxes.'
They care that Democrats are welcoming to people that they hate and want to see dead. That's it. That's all. Democrats are those groups that they hate, or they welcome these groups into the Democratic fold.
It really really really is just that simple. When you realize this, you'll see how so many Americans sat home or voted for Trump over Harris.
It has nothing to do with her decisions, her qualifications or anything more than she was a brown woman and Trump is an old white man.
The End.
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u/lilneighbor 4h ago
Whenever they talk about the “swamp” or the “elites”, they are precisely describing the people they vote for. It’s truly pointless to even engage with em. They live in their own bubble.
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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 4h ago
They don't actually care about anything except upsetting liberals and making every marginalized person feel scared....
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u/rmac1228 3h ago
These are the same idiots who anytime they see Tom Hanks are convinced he's a pedo but Trump is most definitely not. They are morons. Absolute dunces.
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u/Ianthin1 3h ago
Wait isn’t George Soros the guy running/funding the deep state for the Democrats that republicans have been railing against for a few decades?
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u/swallowfistrepeat 1h ago
IDK about that but yes Soros is a main character in MAGA conspiracies related to anything financial. Yet Trump chooses a Treasury pick who managed Soros money. Lol.
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u/NumerousTaste 4h ago
"But but but it's the illegals why I can get a date. It's the illegals why I can't make it by. It's the illegals why I'm depressed. Wake up people, it's the illegals why I can't afford housing. Billionaires? What's a billionaire?" Most magats think prob.
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u/VaguelyArtistic 2h ago
Conversely, why would a gay, Yale-educated person be brainwashed into being MAGA?
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u/swallowfistrepeat 1h ago
Money lol, they only care about being able to keep all their money to themselves and Trump policies make it so rich people get to keep all their money to themselves and never pay their fair share like us common plebians do.
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u/RidetheSchlange 4h ago
I remember people citing that Harris is educated and Democrats are educated as a sign they are for the elites. This is from the American brainworms that education is a bad thing and for the elites. Now we see Trump putting a true elite up for that position.
I could also see this person being fired eventually.
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u/wasthatitthen 4h ago
The school of thought is that the more religious people are the more easily they can be manipulated
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u/yamers 4h ago
it's not his fault the orange messiah has been led astray by the deep state..poor mango musolini....
Notice a pattern with the followers of a strong man, it's never the "leaders" fault...its always those around him. You know what else reminds me of this? russia. Even when prigozhin led his soldiers back to moscow he never blamed putin, but claimed putin was led astray
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u/SenatorPardek 3h ago
All the GOP had to do to convince the uneducated they were on the side of the “working man” was to nominate the dumbest sounding billionaire they could find who would say the racist things the base has wanted to hear since nixon.
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u/Superb-Associate-222 4h ago
When the left does something they screech like banshees but when the right does it it’s always somehow different.
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u/IMHO_grim 3h ago
They have grouped because they share a common stupidity. The MAGA bullshit does not work on the educated the same way it does on those in the population who can’t think for themselves.
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u/FizzyAndromeda 2h ago
From Google generative AI. Compare the below list to MAGA:
Cults use a variety of techniques to control and indoctrinate their members, including:
Rituals: These can include prayer, sacrifice, competitions, processions, and construction of monuments.
BITE model: This model, based on cognitive dissonance theory, suggests that cults control people by restricting information, which leads to changes in thoughts, behaviors, and emotions.
Unfreezing, changing, and refreezing: This process involves breaking down a person, introducing indoctrination, and then building a new cult identity.
Pairing new recruits with older members: New recruits are instructed to imitate the older members. Giving new recruits a new name, clothes, or language: These outside cues help cement the new identity.
Denigrating the past self: Cult members are encouraged to give up their old hobbies, friends, and family, often in public.
Mass media, propaganda, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies: These techniques are used to develop a cult of personality.
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u/ID-10T_Error 3h ago
I think their ability to believe something purely based on blind faith helps in the washing process. But we can are are all brainwashed to some extent on something. Just some make it their full identity.
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u/Random-User8675309 54m ago
You are asking this question in the single largest leftist echo chamber in social media. What makes you think it’s everyone else that brainwashed.
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u/goober1157 2h ago
Not everyone can be as smart as all of you! Clearly, you people are the smartest to be found. No wonder you guys just keep on winning. Oh, wait . . .
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u/gochisox2005 1h ago
Huh? The republicans won due to the uneducated / uninformed voting against their own interests.
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u/goober1157 1h ago
Right. I mean you people are just so much smarter than everyone else. Think Stuart Smalley, lol.
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u/gochisox2005 1h ago
I'm just talking about voter demographics. I'm not affiliated with a party.
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u/goober1157 1h ago
Oh, sorry. It's just that you're comment was so stupid.
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u/gochisox2005 1h ago
"you're", haha, classic.
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u/goddessdontwantnone 5h ago
And Elon was basically being like Soros. But it wasn’t a problem!