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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

Not a cult.

Man, I lived in a pretty blissful bubble until 2020. Until then, I honestly thought that Trump supporters knew that he was lying, but liked him for it. Trolling and riling up the libs and the "MSM" by saying outlandish and nonsensical things and what not.

It wasn't until I started hearing otherwise smart people repeat "COVID is going to magically disappear in November" (as if the entire world was conspiring and exaggerating their dead bodies to beat Trump in an election), and then, of course, millions of people buying into his utterly stupid boy-who-cried-wolf election lies that I finally realized, holy shit, people actually believe this moron.

I miss being naive.

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13 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

They have been saying, "He tells it like it is" from the very beginning. These are not smart people. Plus they want to believe it. Enough of your pesky facts. He says what I want to hear and believe. It is true because I speak it into existence.

This is my working theory as well. There are socio-economic factors that were in place long before Trump, but the nationalist / fascist talking points have been drilled into these people's heads for the last 50 years or so. Limbaugh's screed starting peeling away what little common sense many of them had in the early 90s. Those that weren't already racist / bigot shitbags have been more-or-less Pavlov'd into hating everyone other than themselves.

Then along came shitstain. A fucking conman grifter whose life is the American Dream in a mirror darkly. These people have been howling for Limbaugh and Hannity to run for office, and then this fucking troglodyte comes along and actually does what Ma and Pa Conservative want: he runs for President on the most vile political platform since Charles Lindberg and America First.  He says all of their quiet parts out loud and they love him for it.

But there aren't another 80 million GQP musketeers waiting to join in the fellating of their new savior like they've been told. Turns out, a majority of Americans want nothing to do with this shitheel. They cannot hold or consolidate power through the massive nationalist movement they were promised because the other side is so vehemently opposed to their batshit insanity as if to be a part of another reality. Cognitive dissonance, for some, hurts their brains. So they pick their side, willingly leave reality, and decide that if they can't have the America they want, then they'll just burn it all down.

The only endgame for most of these folks is death or prison; they have no real governing ethos that goes beyond the short-term. They don't even know what they really want, other than to make folks that don't look or sound like them to suffer. If a global pandemic and a fucking botched overthrow of the government wasn't enough to wake these people up, nothing will.

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1 hour ago, longhornmatt said:

including being caught on tape telling the GA Secretary of State to find him the exact number of votes he needs (“It was the end of an hour long call, and he was frustrated they were screwing him around!”).

I know I don't have to tell you this, but that is not at all what happened. Shockingly. 

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3 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

 

Nothing changes until Trump dies, and then hopefully they just can’t all agree on a successor to the throne.

Well, let's see.  For options, they got Bran Stark, Fortinbras, or Mike Pence.

Shit, in the case America says, "Uhhh.....we'll take Danny Noonan."  

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5 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

It’s a cult.  Their identities are so tied to being Republican or not-Democrat or not-Leftist or however they frame it, that they literally cannot be objective.  It’s like triggering some primeval fight or flight instinct to threaten that identity in any way.   And Trump is for some insane reason the champion and avatar of that identity for them now.  They would, and are, choosing him over Jesus or whatever they claim is their religion.

The only good news is that nobody in the current Republican field appears able to tap into that the way that Trump did.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well, there's that article noting that evangelicals are starting to call the Gospel weak socialist shit.

I wonder where they got that idea.

Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

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I wonder where they got that idea.

Matthew 19:21
Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

MAGA: No, pretty sure Jesus said "fuck you, pay me"

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I think what trips me out the most are the magats that are relatively well off.  i.e. several of my relatives.  At least with poor white trash, I can somewhat see that, yeah, your life does not look super awesome and your small town has been decimated by walmart and dollar stores and there's no farming and no industry anymore.  I can see why they'd be pissed off.  Then you have the people who are retired, or close to it, with a good chunk of change in the bank, a nice house that's paid off, and no reason to be upset other than they just WANT something to be pissed at.  Those are the ones that really make me nuts.

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53 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I think what trips me out the most are the magats that are relatively well off.  i.e. several of my relatives.  At least with poor white trash, I can somewhat see that, yeah, your life does not look super awesome and your small town has been decimated by walmart and dollar stores and there's no farming and no industry anymore.  I can see why they'd be pissed off.  Then you have the people who are retired, or close to it, with a good chunk of change in the bank, a nice house that's paid off, and no reason to be upset other than they just WANT something to be pissed at.  Those are the ones that really make me nuts.

Trump is pretty fucking adept at conning people below a certain threshold of critical thinking, and the people you mention are the ones that are somewhere in the transition from being high-functioning adults in their intellectual prime to those who buy the "As Seen on TV" crap and get scammed on reverse mortgages.  They are retired or counting the days, and the career vacuum is being filled with consuming information from conservative sources. 

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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

MIL has more of this than anyone I've ever known.

Yep, I'm convinced that's a sign of declining mentation and a warning that an aging person is becoming susceptible to scams.  Trump/MAGA is the scam of scams.

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4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

It's so blindingly obvious. I feel like he could come out today and say that it's all just a scam, and it wouldn't impact his support much, if at all. 

You don’t have to convince people Trump is Jesus.  You just have to convince them that Biden is the Antichrist.

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Conspiracy Theories - MAGA - Bitcoin - Joe Rogan - Gold/Silver - Anti-Fed

What do these all have in common? Stupidity

These people are willfully ignorant. They believe what they FEEL is true and ignore any evidence that contradicts their feelings. 

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11 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Man, this sounds super legit.  I should probably get on this.  

I’m really surprised there is not a Trump crypto currency being hawked as the only safe place to keep your retirement savings while democrats hold power.

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47 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Man, this sounds super legit.  I should probably get on this.  

Well, Goredho has found us a business venture

35 minutes ago, Goredho said:

I’m really surprised there is not a Trump crypto currency being hawked as the only safe place to keep your retirement savings while democrats hold power.

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1 hour ago, Goredho said:

Funnily and coincidentally enough, I just found this in my email…

 

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Hannity: Biden is going to raise capital gains, retirement, and estate taxes!

Debt-saddled, working class Trumper with no pension or 401K and whose most valuable asset is the Punisher decal on his leased F250: Aw, Hell no!

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Hannity: Biden is going to raise capital gains, retirement, and estate taxes!

Debt-saddled, working class Trumper with no pension or 401K and whose most valuable asset is the Punisher decal on his leased F250: Aw, Hell no!

Not to mention they are preying on people who have no idea how tax legislation is actually passed.  They say it like he can do something by executive order on October 1st!  Fuck a bunch of congress and bills!  He's going to just wave a wand and your bank account will empty!

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33 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

They say it like he can do something by executive order on October 1st!  Fuck a bunch of congress and bills!  He's going to just wave a wand and your bank account will empty!

Well....being that the above description is EXACTLY the way they want things to work in the Reign of King Donald I (God Save the King, long may he reign)....this checks out.

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SIAP: One of the places my wife and I have long thought we'd enjoy relocating to if we decide to bail on Texas is western North Carolina (either Asheville, or more realistically, Charlotte).  But after reading this (and knowing that a portion of the state elected Madison Cawthorn), I just don't know anymore.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-mark-robinson-conspiracy-theorist-north-carolina-governor-race_n_64df8cabe4b0ce7f01203a6b?unf

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6 hours ago, Goredho said:

Funnily and coincidentally enough, I just found this in my email…

 

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Fortunately, I haven't had to tell any clients this is bullshit, but one of my business partners has had to tell multiple clients "DO NOT DO THIS!!!" He has way older clients surprise, surprise.

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Gold is within 10% of a 20-year high and is seemingly on the downturn.  Yeah, great time to throw your money into gold.  Thanks, Sean.

I was curious about AM radio in Houston earlier today and flipped around the dial.   There are way more stations carrying right wing propaganda than I expected (at least 3) and I heard gold ads on all three of them within 10-15 minutes.  

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4 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I was curious about AM radio in Houston earlier today and flipped around the dial.   There are way more stations carrying right wing propaganda than I expected (at least 3) and I heard gold ads on all three of them within 10-15 minutes.  

Gold and Low-T treatments.  
Target demographic.

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I see this sticker on pick up trucks pretty often in the Houston area. It's usually a clapped out blue collar truck, but occasionally it's a nice F250. I have to admit, it does trigger me a bit #snowflake. I feel the same way with them for voting for Trump but I am not a fucking moron enough to put a sticker on my vehicle.

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38 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

I was curious about AM radio in Houston earlier today and flipped around the dial.   There are way more stations carrying right wing propaganda than I expected (at least 3) and I heard gold ads on all three of them within 10-15 minutes.  

Lots of libertarians in Houston.  They love the gold.

These people would be sporting Infowars stickers in years past.

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2 hours ago, sasquatch69 said:

SIAP: One of the places my wife and I have long thought we'd enjoy relocating to if we decide to bail on Texas is western North Carolina (either Asheville, or more realistically, Charlotte).  But after reading this (and knowing that a portion of the state elected Madison Cawthorn), I just don't know anymore.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-mark-robinson-conspiracy-theorist-north-carolina-governor-race_n_64df8cabe4b0ce7f01203a6b?unf

Western North Carolina is a garden salad of Hillfolk, Florida Retirees, and Asheville (I include all urban settlements with books or a decent restaurant as Asheville even if they are a county or two away.)

Hillfolk open up very slowly, but can be solid friends.

Floridians run the range of Florida-ness.

Asheville is fairly civilized.

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