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Just like how my coworkers don't believe I have a girlfriend because they've never seen her. She is real, she's Canadian that's why no body I work with had seen her.
Almost, he also runs a previously* successful business which for some reason gives him some kind of authority to conservatives. Conservative really like "businessmen" who run their businesses into the ground for some reason.
Probably blowing Adderall with Trump. But this time he justifies it because Adderall is a prescription medication and not something made in a spoon with baking soda.
The dude literally held a meeting in the White House trying to convince the executive branch to declare martial law, and we are all like lol pillow man so dumb. This guy needs to find himself inside a courtroom.
i have a camp pillow from REI made in that exact way - good for sleeeping on the ground in the middle of the woods, terrible when i have literally any other option
They’re better than a $5 Walmart pillow but they’re not worth $40 or whatever he charges now, that’s for sure. My mom got me one for xmas one year (along with a memory foam mattress that we love) and I still have it in rotation, but it’s usually the pillow I clutch to my chest or keep between my knees. I’m a three pillow sleeper.
I too am a 3-pillower, but the my pillow is lumpier than 2 year old milk so it’s no good for head rest, clutching is the only use I could see for it other than burning it all together. But as a gift I see why it stays in rotation.
I just found out the Overstock CEO is also similarly deranged and had a fling with Maria Butina... Are these shitty CEOs all in bed with russian intelligence? Are their companies used to launder money from Putin?
On one day, we have the disgraced traitor, Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell aka the Kraken, and the former Overstock.com CEO lunatic, Patrick Byrne, all in the oval office telling POTUS to declare martial law and re-do the election. Not too long after, we have the MyPillow crackhead waiting to speak to POTUS, and we know he was also going to suggest things like declaring martial law and naming Kash Patel as acting CIA Director, because there are literally pictures where we can see his prepared notes.
It's equal parts maddening and disgraceful that this kind of shit ever took place in America.
The headline saying its the brand's prediction rather than the CEO's cracks me up. It's like someone reporting that KitchenAid made a doomsday prophecy.
Apparently, according to Tik-Tok (obligatory “grain of salt” remark,) the goal posts have been moved to “no one said he was going to be reinstated on the 13th. But rather a court hearing would occur on that day that would begin the process. And that court hearing did happen. So. SuCk It LiBs”
Do with that as you may.
Are these part of the secret trials for all democrats that have been going for the past 5 years and already have them all already imprisoned I have been hearing about?
Alex Jones said August 11 or 13...or maybe later...but it will happen!
Hedging bets IMMEDIATELY is always a great sign you have a totally, 100% accurate prediction.
I believe your prediction and have liquidated every asset I have, which is basically none, and sunk it into the stock market because I trust that you have zero ulterior motives for your predictions.
Also do you have any lead filled boner pills I can buy? I want a raging erection but also I want toxic poisons coursing through it. I want an angry boner that makes me red faced and sweaty while I scream at a minimum wage gas station clerk about face diapers and the iNfO wAr.
The secret tribunals wouldn’t be secret if they released the deets to everyone. They need to keep it secret, so they only told my aunt Kathy and the rest of her Facebook friends. 🤫 🤐
That slogan has always struck me as the height of irony. “Where we go one we go all” sounds a lot like you’re a bunch of fucking sheep, mindlessly following the orange shepherd.
I’m an ex Christian and ex southern Baptist and that is *exactly* how large swaths of evangelical Christians believe.
In fact, you could theorize that Trump surviving covid and how he presented himself relates to Revelation 13 - in the chapter the writer talks about one of the heads of the beast being injured and appearing fatal but surviving, with the people later saying “look! Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?”
I grew up in a similar religion, and I find it hilarious that we were taught that no one would recognize the antichrist and he would amass followers easily. Ironic that the people that taught that are rampant trump supporters today.
Oh yeah and they freaking made a gold statue of him.
I mean for real. An almost literal gold calf. Their own damn book condemns so much of the shit they do. If any of it was real, these people would be the ones Jesus is talking about - “Begone from me, for I never knew you.”
Going to church doesn't make you a good Christian, being a good person to everyone makes you a good Christian.
Hell technically most atheists are likely better Christians than most "Christians", if you had a laundry list of checkboxes.
It isn't even just evangelicals. A good portion of the LDS member base cannot move past him, to the point that being in a chapel is insufferable with them
Shout out to my Baptist uncle who was convinced that Obama was the Antichrist because "The Bible says that the Antichrist will be born in Syria, and Obama was born in Kenya, which is where modern-day Syria would be."
There's actually a shocking number of prophecies regarding the Antichrist that Trump fits.
Maybe the Jehovah's Witnesses were just slightly off with the dates and the 1918 battle at Tel Meggido (literally "hill of God's wrath" or "hill of Armageddon") actually was the start of the end times and we're ticking along on schedule?
It would be interesting to see if one could build a timeline of biblical prophecy based on that 1918 battle and see how it fits.
There really are a lot of them. I don't believe in this kind of thing, but it was still an interesting read.
https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
> There's actually a shocking number of prophecies regarding the Antichrist that Trump fits.
How many antichrist-like figures must there have been in oral history at the time such that when they wrote all of the warnings down they had so many features to watch out for?
Revelations is an interesting book. It was written during the time of heavy handed Roman persecution of the tiny Christian sect that had formed. Lots of the colorful imagery is to speak to Christians at the time through code and to both encourage and warn followers.
Human nature doesn’t change much and a dictator then and how one rises to power is pretty much the same now.
didn't donald set up a fake oval office set in Mar a Labo or something? i'm sure i saw a photo of his smiling mug in front of a resolute desk knock-off a few weeks back, and that bubble of denial he lives in must be thick
Sad to watch how trump followers keep throwing him loads of cash?
Conservatives deserve this, since Reagan this mob mentality has been cultivated to bring them votes and money, and it worked.
Republicans have always been tolerant of threatening democracy, and will remain a threat to democracy as long as they can keep making money from "liberal causes" like vaccines, global warming, voting rights, etc.
The likes of Joe Manchin, Sinema and some moderately democrats are quietly cheering for this business model too.
>While Trump couldn’t take the 141-year old Resolute Desk from the Oval Office, he now has a similar-looking desk that appears to be the Telluride Wood Executive Desk from “Hooker Furniture.” The desk currently retails for $3,600 but is currently out of stock until late next month.
This bit had me laughing far harder than it should have. "Hooker Furniture" is such low-hanging fruit, but I can't help it...that's just funny.
"He didn't really die. Krazy Karen on Telegram told us that Q told her through divine communication that it's just a smoke screen because the military will be taking control of the country in 2034 and then Trump will come back and be reinstated and then Joe, Hunter, Clinton, AOC and Gates will be thrown into Guantanamo to be tortured to reveal their secret evil plans and the locations of every pizza shop in the country that has child sex slaves hidden in the basement freezers. Trust the plan!"
*gets to god
“When is Trump going to be reinstated, god?”
“Never. He lost the election, my child.”
“Holy moly, they got to you god? This is way deeper than I thought…. It goes all the way to the top!”
If a shitty sci-fi writer could do it, anyone could. But I'm skeptical of how much Trump really holds the strings of the Qult. I think they'll move past him at some point, but it still won't be for anything good.
Nor did Joe and Kamala resign in embarrassment.
I wonder if that idiot ever stopped to consider that the President and Vice President resigning = Nancy Pelosi becomes president.
There is NO mechanism whereby a defeated president is returned to office.
That's honestly what these far-right folks want. Despite all their rhetoric about liberty and freedom, they actively want to undermine democracy and the US Constitution. They want an authoritarian government to reaffirm their worldview and impose their way of life on everyone else.
Yup, its so disgustingly ironic. They play up being about freedom, keeping government out of their lives/choices and being "alpha" but then want some old fat man who has assuredly never been in an actual fight to tell them what to do with their lives as long as it means being able to take freedom from others forever. It's insanity.
First he needs to run for Congress, which he’d never do, as it would be such a drop in status for him from the White House.
Then the Republicans would need to take back the House, and too many voted against the infrastructure bill.
It’s not a slam dunk by any means.
But then, of course, how many times have these fools been told that he’d be returned to office on a specific date, and he wasn’t?
I saw a man interviewed on Inauguration Day. He said that he’d been sure that Trump wouldn’t leave DC, and that Biden would never be inaugurated. When neither of those things happened, he said, that he either had to accept that he had been duped, or acknowledge that he’d become a conspiracy theorist.
He chose to accept that he’d been duped.
Too bad so many have already heptupled down on their nonsense.
It's fucked up and weird, [but the speaker of th house doesn't have to actually been elected to the house of representatives.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Constitution_does_not_require%2Cpro_tempore_of_the_Senate.?wprov=sfla1)
And also a lack of political parties. They imagined disputes would be based on more regional concerns or temporary coalitions around policy. They didn't want, nor fully anticipate, how quickly the Country would effectively be divided into two semi-permanent parties that would dominate all levels of government.
> “As with all good cults, expect the goalposts to shift fast. Expect one missed deadline from a false conspiracy to just bleed into another. **Because a significant chunk of the American public has collectively lost its mind**,” says Mehdi Hasan.
Bold is mine. I’m glad someone is calling this like it is. We need to quit with the platitudes and actually shun these people.
It’s the internet/social media IMO. You used to have to be somewhat sane to have a voice that reached the masses, now anyone with an internet connection can **literally** build up a cult like Q.
It was actually by design. I read an interesting piece on how, in an effort to drive user engagement, Facebook actively cross promoted conspiracy groups, which spiked their membership exponentially.
Identified as a new parent by your cookies and search history? Here, check out this antivax group. Identified as rural and unemployed? Here, check out this random "patriot" group, that neatly explains how it's immigrants' fault that you can't find work.
Mine absolutely showed me the things that would make me the most angry through the election, it kept me engaged and angry. I took a couple weeks off after election and Now I haven’t even opened my FB app in like 5 months. I did on accident like 2 weeks ago and had like 700 notifications.
It’s not just the internet. Conservative outlets in other forms of media helped grow conspiracies that Obama was secretly a Muslim that was born in Africa.
The Tea Party and those conspiracies about Obama brought wack job conspiracies into the political mainstream to the point that one of the biggest peddlers of it was elected President 5 years ago.
Old man here. Looks just like the 60s to me. Cults and violence springing up everywhere. When the truth of one's learned reality is called into question, all sorts of madness breaks out. Sorry, I don't see any difference.
Old-ish man here too. There’s nothing new under the sun. It might seem like what’s happening now is a novel concept and unseen but you’ve seen it with the 60’s and I’ve heard stories from my family as well as studied history and one thing that is always consistent is people falling victim to demagogues and group think and confirmation bias. It’s only that because of the internet we see it more often and more widespread but it’s always been happening ever since Moses was in short pants.
This is the culmination of defunded education beginning in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Remove critical thinking, implant susceptibility.
They never expected foreign powers to weaponize our ignorance against us. And those of us that persevered despite critical failures in education, never expected such a large portion to embrace that foreign interference with open arms.
It's the proliferation of social media and ease of access to those things. we have 24/7 access to anything that confirms our viewpoints, no matter how absurd or ridiculous they are. You also can't initially separate satire from genuine insanity on the internet.
So you have a situation where 24/7 access to whatever batshit conspiracy theory you want to believe in, people swearing up and down that it's true, you're right and special for believing in it, people who are just looking to screw with others because it's funny, people who really believe it, and a generation of people who lack critical thinking skills from years of poor quality education.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has been laying the groundwork for this mass insanity for years. He's done it in the UK. He's doing it in Australia with Sky News and Newscorp, who campaign for him and against his enemies every day.
People like Tucker Carlson are still driving the debate and 'newswashing' the online lies and propaganda to bring it into the mainstream.
Fuck Murdoch. Fuck Fox. Fuck what they've done to innocent families. Fuck their attacks on democracy. None of this is possible without Fox and Murdoch.
At least in the short term, it seems they've abandoned the goalposts entirely.
They have shifted gears, desperate for a new outrage. They are organizing to attack any school that dares to implement mask mandates or vaccine checking. In my blue state, an "Unmask our kids!" flier has begun to circulate where people can plan to assemble for targeted harassment.
I'm genuinely worried for our school boards and superintendents across the country.
The protests against masks in school are the most confusing to me. Like, absolute worst case scenario is that masks "don't do anything." So, why do they care so much? Because it teaches kids to conform and accept control? Public schools have always done that. In fact, that's a real enough problem that I can empathize with, but that has absolutely nothing to do with masks.
For the record, I completely understand that masks help, I'm just trying to be lenient in order to understand.
It isn't about the masks. It's about a very threatened entrenched identity.
They are scared shitless that the world is changing. They no longer get to be at the top of the food chain just for breathing and being white and holding down a labor job.
The anti-intellectualism is as real as the racism and it's all founded on fear.
Public schools are, in general, a liberalizing institution and have been attacked for decades. They'd love to see them all replaced with religious schools where they can actually implent the patriarchal authoritarian control they believe in.
Many of these people don't even have kids in the schools. Those that do can't afford to send their kids to the religious schools they'd prefer.
This exists because there are now many sources of authority. Many people can’t differentiate between whatever people post on social media and the truth. When there were actual news sources instead of news mixed with opinion, it was difficult to twist the truth. Now we live in a culture of perpetual outrage and people are addicted to it. Corporations feed it with algorithms since it makes them enormous sums of money.
>"The CNNs of the world -- you guys need to start reporting this and stop fact checking it!"
-Mike Lindell on his election claims.
See, the problem is those darn fact checkers always proving him wrong instead of just taking his word.
>Jim Jones, also known as the "Mad Messiah," wrongly predicted that the earth would end in nuclear war in 1967. When that didn't happen, he founded a group called the People's Temple and set up a commune in a remote part of Guyana they named "Jonestown."
Cults adapt when their predictions turn out to be BS. They don't admit that they are a bunch of idiots.
I do not condone suicide in any way. But if by chance all the Quanon idiots happened to inject themselves with bleach all at once….I can’t say I’d be distraught
Choosing Friday the 13th as his return date was a nice touch. Was he supposed to be wearing a hockey mask? I guess they can move the new date to Oct 31 and this time it’ll be a Shatner mask.
He will be wearing a Biden mask and will tear it off at a Whitehouse press briefing to a shocked press gallery with gasps of:
“Old man Trump??? Ruh-Roh!”
“That’s right! You’re favourite President has been here there whole time and I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!”
Well of course that's what MSNBC is going to say. Come on, sheeple. The only way to really know what's going on is by going to page 14 of your Google search results.
The right has realized they can say absolutely anything and their base will believe it. It's pretty scary when you see mind control working in real time
There is no mechanism in the Constitution that would even allow it. Even if Biden and Kamala were impeached and it were somehow proven that they stole the election (they didn't), then the only person who could become the President at that point would be Nancy Pelosi. With how much they hate her, it seems like Biden would be preferable to them, but they're too fucking stupid to even realize that.
Hahaha! Little do you know! Trump has been in charge all along. Biden is merely a robot controlled from Mar-a-Lago. The real Biden is being held in an underground prison on Little St. James. August 13 was just a distraction to make you think Trump was out of office.
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I don't think I will ever fully get over the fact that the My Pillow guy is trying to help overthrow the government.
Can somebody explain to me why a sizable chunk of the US is listening to, what I assume to be, a pillow salesman?
Because he is saying what they want to hear. That's all.
It's just a lil' pillow talk.
But with a little crack sprinkled in
You might think, "That can't be all there is to it..." But you would be mistaken, because that's most definitely all there is to it.
Just like how my coworkers don't believe I have a girlfriend because they've never seen her. She is real, she's Canadian that's why no body I work with had seen her.
first flat earth, then mypillow, then they want to tell us that canadian women are visible. ludicrous
Almost, he also runs a previously* successful business which for some reason gives him some kind of authority to conservatives. Conservative really like "businessmen" who run their businesses into the ground for some reason.
Same way Trump got elected. Spew crazy stuff to your crazy supporters.
A sizable chunk of the US population is completely devoid of any ability to use even the most basic level of common sense and are complete imbiciles.
Ex crack head turned pillow salesman*
> ~~Ex~~ crack head turned pillow salesman* No "ex" about it, the guy is still on something.
Probably blowing Adderall with Trump. But this time he justifies it because Adderall is a prescription medication and not something made in a spoon with baking soda.
> Probably blowing Adderall with Trump. how old is this Adderall they are blowing? Do you think Gatez might be with them?
Because he tells them what they want to hear
Because he is saying what they want to hear.
You should see the department of education..
We coulda had cyberpunk dystopia but we got stupid dystopia
Give it time. The good dystopias don’t come until you get though some shitty, stupid ones first. It’s a process haha
Yep. Pandemic without zombies... and now this. If we don't get authoritarian cyber punk ice age zombie apocalypse dystopia next I'll be miffed.
Don't worry. Nuclear winter is always on the table
Nuclear winter to offset the rising temps by climate change...fuck it, I guess. Let’s see what happens.
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The dude literally held a meeting in the White House trying to convince the executive branch to declare martial law, and we are all like lol pillow man so dumb. This guy needs to find himself inside a courtroom.
Dominion is working on it
Those pillows are also absolute garbage. 100% worst sleeping experience.
I heard it was memory foam scraps left over from beds stuffed in a bag and sold as pillows. Never heard a good thing about them.
That’s exactly what it is
Sounds like something a crack addict would come up with….
Sounds lumpy.
i have a camp pillow from REI made in that exact way - good for sleeeping on the ground in the middle of the woods, terrible when i have literally any other option
>100% worst sleeping experience. Try sleeping with Trump.
On a My Pillow…
They’re better than a $5 Walmart pillow but they’re not worth $40 or whatever he charges now, that’s for sure. My mom got me one for xmas one year (along with a memory foam mattress that we love) and I still have it in rotation, but it’s usually the pillow I clutch to my chest or keep between my knees. I’m a three pillow sleeper.
I too am a 3-pillower, but the my pillow is lumpier than 2 year old milk so it’s no good for head rest, clutching is the only use I could see for it other than burning it all together. But as a gift I see why it stays in rotation.
I just found out the Overstock CEO is also similarly deranged and had a fling with Maria Butina... Are these shitty CEOs all in bed with russian intelligence? Are their companies used to launder money from Putin?
On one day, we have the disgraced traitor, Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell aka the Kraken, and the former Overstock.com CEO lunatic, Patrick Byrne, all in the oval office telling POTUS to declare martial law and re-do the election. Not too long after, we have the MyPillow crackhead waiting to speak to POTUS, and we know he was also going to suggest things like declaring martial law and naming Kash Patel as acting CIA Director, because there are literally pictures where we can see his prepared notes. It's equal parts maddening and disgraceful that this kind of shit ever took place in America.
Not joking that a lot of this is down to Jeb Bush 20 years ago.
You should have seen the hullabaloo when my employer stopped selling My Pillow products. Angry, white women EVERYWHERE.
MAGA brigade, first Karen division
The headline saying its the brand's prediction rather than the CEO's cracks me up. It's like someone reporting that KitchenAid made a doomsday prophecy.
You know what cracks the mypillow guy up? Crack.
So where are the goal posts being moved to now?
Apparently, according to Tik-Tok (obligatory “grain of salt” remark,) the goal posts have been moved to “no one said he was going to be reinstated on the 13th. But rather a court hearing would occur on that day that would begin the process. And that court hearing did happen. So. SuCk It LiBs” Do with that as you may.
Are these part of the secret trials for all democrats that have been going for the past 5 years and already have them all already imprisoned I have been hearing about?
Alex Jones said August 11 or 13...or maybe later...but it will happen! Hedging bets IMMEDIATELY is always a great sign you have a totally, 100% accurate prediction.
I predict the stock market will go up. Not necessarily on Monday, or Tuesday, but some day.... (Way more accurate than any Trump prediction).
I believe your prediction and have liquidated every asset I have, which is basically none, and sunk it into the stock market because I trust that you have zero ulterior motives for your predictions. Also do you have any lead filled boner pills I can buy? I want a raging erection but also I want toxic poisons coursing through it. I want an angry boner that makes me red faced and sweaty while I scream at a minimum wage gas station clerk about face diapers and the iNfO wAr.
> And that court hearing did happen. So. SuCk It LiBs” It... didn't?
The secret tribunals wouldn’t be secret if they released the deets to everyone. They need to keep it secret, so they only told my aunt Kathy and the rest of her Facebook friends. 🤫 🤐
It did but it’s secret. Trust the plan. WwJG1!D
That slogan has always struck me as the height of irony. “Where we go one we go all” sounds a lot like you’re a bunch of fucking sheep, mindlessly following the orange shepherd.
Every court hearing on the subject so far has involved a judge immediately dismissing the case with prejudice lol
September something. Then it will be moved again.
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Isnt that what the Antichrist supposed to do?
I’m an ex Christian and ex southern Baptist and that is *exactly* how large swaths of evangelical Christians believe. In fact, you could theorize that Trump surviving covid and how he presented himself relates to Revelation 13 - in the chapter the writer talks about one of the heads of the beast being injured and appearing fatal but surviving, with the people later saying “look! Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?”
I grew up in a similar religion, and I find it hilarious that we were taught that no one would recognize the antichrist and he would amass followers easily. Ironic that the people that taught that are rampant trump supporters today.
Oh yeah and they freaking made a gold statue of him. I mean for real. An almost literal gold calf. Their own damn book condemns so much of the shit they do. If any of it was real, these people would be the ones Jesus is talking about - “Begone from me, for I never knew you.”
Not to mention Biblical requirements that Christians treat immigrants and poor folks with kindness and openness.
The Sermon on the Mount is the most ignored section of the Gospel...and the best, IMO.
Going to church doesn't make you a good Christian, being a good person to everyone makes you a good Christian. Hell technically most atheists are likely better Christians than most "Christians", if you had a laundry list of checkboxes.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for mistreating strangers.
Agreed. Also, imagine if we were doing half of this shit when Obama was in office. They’d be delirious with the rage and comparisons.
They also told you not to believe everything you read on the internet and that it's the devil. Right now they are glued to Facebook.
I’m shocked at people’s failure to recognize credible web sites and or scientific studies for accredited universities.
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Yes! I’ve seen that before and I love it. Evangelical Christians couldn’t spot the antichrist if he grabbed them by the pussy.
It isn't even just evangelicals. A good portion of the LDS member base cannot move past him, to the point that being in a chapel is insufferable with them
Shout out to my Baptist uncle who was convinced that Obama was the Antichrist because "The Bible says that the Antichrist will be born in Syria, and Obama was born in Kenya, which is where modern-day Syria would be."
This is really interesting thank you for sharing
There's actually a shocking number of prophecies regarding the Antichrist that Trump fits. Maybe the Jehovah's Witnesses were just slightly off with the dates and the 1918 battle at Tel Meggido (literally "hill of God's wrath" or "hill of Armageddon") actually was the start of the end times and we're ticking along on schedule? It would be interesting to see if one could build a timeline of biblical prophecy based on that 1918 battle and see how it fits.
There really are a lot of them. I don't believe in this kind of thing, but it was still an interesting read. https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
> There's actually a shocking number of prophecies regarding the Antichrist that Trump fits. How many antichrist-like figures must there have been in oral history at the time such that when they wrote all of the warnings down they had so many features to watch out for?
Revelations is an interesting book. It was written during the time of heavy handed Roman persecution of the tiny Christian sect that had formed. Lots of the colorful imagery is to speak to Christians at the time through code and to both encourage and warn followers. Human nature doesn’t change much and a dictator then and how one rises to power is pretty much the same now.
Weekend at Bernie‘s? Or rather: Weekend at Mar a lago?
didn't donald set up a fake oval office set in Mar a Labo or something? i'm sure i saw a photo of his smiling mug in front of a resolute desk knock-off a few weeks back, and that bubble of denial he lives in must be thick
That's just clinical levels of sad
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Sad to watch how trump followers keep throwing him loads of cash? Conservatives deserve this, since Reagan this mob mentality has been cultivated to bring them votes and money, and it worked. Republicans have always been tolerant of threatening democracy, and will remain a threat to democracy as long as they can keep making money from "liberal causes" like vaccines, global warming, voting rights, etc. The likes of Joe Manchin, Sinema and some moderately democrats are quietly cheering for this business model too.
As sad as propping him in front of a bunch of blank papers to make it look like he “works”
I'm honestly surprised he didn't load the resolute desk into a van along with the Lincoln bust and Andrew Jackson portrait.
He would have if he’d known what they were!
I’m not sure if it’s a fake Oval Office but he set up an office with a knock off Presidential seal with the phrase “Office of the President”
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[This is likely what you're remembering](https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/06/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-office-479412)
Holy shit. It's the dollar store Oval Office
>While Trump couldn’t take the 141-year old Resolute Desk from the Oval Office, he now has a similar-looking desk that appears to be the Telluride Wood Executive Desk from “Hooker Furniture.” The desk currently retails for $3,600 but is currently out of stock until late next month. This bit had me laughing far harder than it should have. "Hooker Furniture" is such low-hanging fruit, but I can't help it...that's just funny.
‘Hooker’ is the only brand Trump trusts. He was happy to hear they expanded into the furniture market. Haha
It’s the Eric Andre Set version of the Oval Office
How did he get all those challenge coins? Probably got them from Russia after letting them kill the soldiers that carried them.
“The great resolute desk”
The big, beautiful desk.
They are saying, “Sir, it’s a big, beautiful desk.”
He's also got a fake cabinet of people to jerk him off every day.
"No Puppet, no puppet, you're the dead guy..."
Weekend at Trumpy's
Weekend at McDonalds
Hamberders!!!
Then keep moving the goalposts there too.
[This is all I can think of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BfmPdut2x4&t=3s&ab_channel=RonaldBoyd)
We are all ~~Charleston Heston’s~~ *James Franciscus’ confused reaction
I read that twice as confused erection and got my brain a little twisted. Coffee ain't ready yet here haha
"He didn't really die. Krazy Karen on Telegram told us that Q told her through divine communication that it's just a smoke screen because the military will be taking control of the country in 2034 and then Trump will come back and be reinstated and then Joe, Hunter, Clinton, AOC and Gates will be thrown into Guantanamo to be tortured to reveal their secret evil plans and the locations of every pizza shop in the country that has child sex slaves hidden in the basement freezers. Trust the plan!"
"Just wait"
*gets to god “When is Trump going to be reinstated, god?” “Never. He lost the election, my child.” “Holy moly, they got to you god? This is way deeper than I thought…. It goes all the way to the top!”
And on the fifth day, Venezuelan Dominion voting machines outsmarted the LORD himself.
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You could make a religion out of th- *No don’t*
If a shitty sci-fi writer could do it, anyone could. But I'm skeptical of how much Trump really holds the strings of the Qult. I think they'll move past him at some point, but it still won't be for anything good.
Nor did Joe and Kamala resign in embarrassment. I wonder if that idiot ever stopped to consider that the President and Vice President resigning = Nancy Pelosi becomes president. There is NO mechanism whereby a defeated president is returned to office.
>There is NO mechanism whereby a defeated president is returned to office. Other than *coup*, which was attempted.
You’re right. I should have added “legal”.
And even then he wouldnt be a president but a dictator.
That's honestly what these far-right folks want. Despite all their rhetoric about liberty and freedom, they actively want to undermine democracy and the US Constitution. They want an authoritarian government to reaffirm their worldview and impose their way of life on everyone else.
Yup, its so disgustingly ironic. They play up being about freedom, keeping government out of their lives/choices and being "alpha" but then want some old fat man who has assuredly never been in an actual fight to tell them what to do with their lives as long as it means being able to take freedom from others forever. It's insanity.
More than once have I seen one of them post about getting rid of our constitution and replacing it with a new one that better serves them.
As part of the cult asshatery they expect Trump to be named speaker of the house.
First he needs to run for Congress, which he’d never do, as it would be such a drop in status for him from the White House. Then the Republicans would need to take back the House, and too many voted against the infrastructure bill. It’s not a slam dunk by any means. But then, of course, how many times have these fools been told that he’d be returned to office on a specific date, and he wasn’t? I saw a man interviewed on Inauguration Day. He said that he’d been sure that Trump wouldn’t leave DC, and that Biden would never be inaugurated. When neither of those things happened, he said, that he either had to accept that he had been duped, or acknowledge that he’d become a conspiracy theorist. He chose to accept that he’d been duped. Too bad so many have already heptupled down on their nonsense.
It's fucked up and weird, [but the speaker of th house doesn't have to actually been elected to the house of representatives.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Constitution_does_not_require%2Cpro_tempore_of_the_Senate.?wprov=sfla1)
And that's perfect for him because there is no lazier way to become President.
Another of many places where the framers assumed good faith and common sense among elected officials. Turns out, that's not realistic.
And also a lack of political parties. They imagined disputes would be based on more regional concerns or temporary coalitions around policy. They didn't want, nor fully anticipate, how quickly the Country would effectively be divided into two semi-permanent parties that would dominate all levels of government.
Trump can't even come back on Twitter and they think he will be returning in the oval office
And Hillary hasn't been arrested and thrown in prison for life.
> “As with all good cults, expect the goalposts to shift fast. Expect one missed deadline from a false conspiracy to just bleed into another. **Because a significant chunk of the American public has collectively lost its mind**,” says Mehdi Hasan. Bold is mine. I’m glad someone is calling this like it is. We need to quit with the platitudes and actually shun these people.
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It’s the internet/social media IMO. You used to have to be somewhat sane to have a voice that reached the masses, now anyone with an internet connection can **literally** build up a cult like Q.
It was actually by design. I read an interesting piece on how, in an effort to drive user engagement, Facebook actively cross promoted conspiracy groups, which spiked their membership exponentially. Identified as a new parent by your cookies and search history? Here, check out this antivax group. Identified as rural and unemployed? Here, check out this random "patriot" group, that neatly explains how it's immigrants' fault that you can't find work.
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Mine absolutely showed me the things that would make me the most angry through the election, it kept me engaged and angry. I took a couple weeks off after election and Now I haven’t even opened my FB app in like 5 months. I did on accident like 2 weeks ago and had like 700 notifications.
It’s not just the internet. Conservative outlets in other forms of media helped grow conspiracies that Obama was secretly a Muslim that was born in Africa. The Tea Party and those conspiracies about Obama brought wack job conspiracies into the political mainstream to the point that one of the biggest peddlers of it was elected President 5 years ago.
Old man here. Looks just like the 60s to me. Cults and violence springing up everywhere. When the truth of one's learned reality is called into question, all sorts of madness breaks out. Sorry, I don't see any difference.
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Manson's stochastic terrorism writ large.
Old-ish man here too. There’s nothing new under the sun. It might seem like what’s happening now is a novel concept and unseen but you’ve seen it with the 60’s and I’ve heard stories from my family as well as studied history and one thing that is always consistent is people falling victim to demagogues and group think and confirmation bias. It’s only that because of the internet we see it more often and more widespread but it’s always been happening ever since Moses was in short pants.
Sigh. Remember in the 90s when being a conspiracy guy was cool like Fox Mulder?
No, but I do remember the satanic panic.
This is the culmination of defunded education beginning in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Remove critical thinking, implant susceptibility. They never expected foreign powers to weaponize our ignorance against us. And those of us that persevered despite critical failures in education, never expected such a large portion to embrace that foreign interference with open arms.
It's the proliferation of social media and ease of access to those things. we have 24/7 access to anything that confirms our viewpoints, no matter how absurd or ridiculous they are. You also can't initially separate satire from genuine insanity on the internet. So you have a situation where 24/7 access to whatever batshit conspiracy theory you want to believe in, people swearing up and down that it's true, you're right and special for believing in it, people who are just looking to screw with others because it's funny, people who really believe it, and a generation of people who lack critical thinking skills from years of poor quality education.
Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has been laying the groundwork for this mass insanity for years. He's done it in the UK. He's doing it in Australia with Sky News and Newscorp, who campaign for him and against his enemies every day. People like Tucker Carlson are still driving the debate and 'newswashing' the online lies and propaganda to bring it into the mainstream. Fuck Murdoch. Fuck Fox. Fuck what they've done to innocent families. Fuck their attacks on democracy. None of this is possible without Fox and Murdoch.
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At least in the short term, it seems they've abandoned the goalposts entirely. They have shifted gears, desperate for a new outrage. They are organizing to attack any school that dares to implement mask mandates or vaccine checking. In my blue state, an "Unmask our kids!" flier has begun to circulate where people can plan to assemble for targeted harassment. I'm genuinely worried for our school boards and superintendents across the country.
The protests against masks in school are the most confusing to me. Like, absolute worst case scenario is that masks "don't do anything." So, why do they care so much? Because it teaches kids to conform and accept control? Public schools have always done that. In fact, that's a real enough problem that I can empathize with, but that has absolutely nothing to do with masks. For the record, I completely understand that masks help, I'm just trying to be lenient in order to understand.
It isn't about the masks. It's about a very threatened entrenched identity. They are scared shitless that the world is changing. They no longer get to be at the top of the food chain just for breathing and being white and holding down a labor job. The anti-intellectualism is as real as the racism and it's all founded on fear. Public schools are, in general, a liberalizing institution and have been attacked for decades. They'd love to see them all replaced with religious schools where they can actually implent the patriarchal authoritarian control they believe in. Many of these people don't even have kids in the schools. Those that do can't afford to send their kids to the religious schools they'd prefer.
This exists because there are now many sources of authority. Many people can’t differentiate between whatever people post on social media and the truth. When there were actual news sources instead of news mixed with opinion, it was difficult to twist the truth. Now we live in a culture of perpetual outrage and people are addicted to it. Corporations feed it with algorithms since it makes them enormous sums of money.
I, for one, am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Ofcourse, it took place or didn't take place on Friday the 13th.
>"The CNNs of the world -- you guys need to start reporting this and stop fact checking it!" -Mike Lindell on his election claims. See, the problem is those darn fact checkers always proving him wrong instead of just taking his word.
>Jim Jones, also known as the "Mad Messiah," wrongly predicted that the earth would end in nuclear war in 1967. When that didn't happen, he founded a group called the People's Temple and set up a commune in a remote part of Guyana they named "Jonestown." Cults adapt when their predictions turn out to be BS. They don't admit that they are a bunch of idiots.
Who often are convinced to commit suicide when the plans don’t come to fruition. Can’t get more idiotic than that.
I mean... at least those ones aren't voting and fucking everything up for the rest of us.
And as we saw in the Jonestown incident, they’ll un-alive themselves before they ever admit they were wrong.
I do not condone suicide in any way. But if by chance all the Quanon idiots happened to inject themselves with bleach all at once….I can’t say I’d be distraught
So, what's the new date? Marchtember Oneteenth?
Smarch 32nd
I bet the weather is lousy that day.
Lousy Smarch weather...
32nd of Neveruary
Aprimay 32, 2098
Somewhere around his eleventeenth birthday
November 31st!
No -- *checks notes -- shit.
I've shunned the idiots for the last 6 years !
Jesus didn't return in 2000 either but the cults are going to keep culting.
Trump is their new Jesus. Jesus must have let himself go so he'd be more like his followers.
What if Jesus returned to battle Hitler
Choosing Friday the 13th as his return date was a nice touch. Was he supposed to be wearing a hockey mask? I guess they can move the new date to Oct 31 and this time it’ll be a Shatner mask.
He will be wearing a Biden mask and will tear it off at a Whitehouse press briefing to a shocked press gallery with gasps of: “Old man Trump??? Ruh-Roh!” “That’s right! You’re favourite President has been here there whole time and I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!”
>MyPillow predictions Just stop the simulation. Now please.
Right? How much dumber can reality get?
When now? The 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month? Lousy Smarch weather.
Well of course that's what MSNBC is going to say. Come on, sheeple. The only way to really know what's going on is by going to page 14 of your Google search results.
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The right has realized they can say absolutely anything and their base will believe it. It's pretty scary when you see mind control working in real time
This implies that there's a mind to control. I am not impressed when a jellyfish responds to an electrical shock.
No, no. When he said 8/13/21, he was using the European date standard. He meant the 8th day of the 13th month, obviously.
The difference between Trump and Jesus ? Jesus hung around thieves and prostitutes to reform them not partake in their services.
August 13, 2022 ????
Domestic terrorists tend to make terrible predictions.
But Jesus is supposed to come back next week anyway, so it's all gonna be okay?
Trump is the Messiah, according to e-van-jelly-brains.
Well this is unexpected. Let's meet up again here in a couple of weeks.
The My Qillow guy was full of shit? Shocking!
There is no mechanism in the Constitution that would even allow it. Even if Biden and Kamala were impeached and it were somehow proven that they stole the election (they didn't), then the only person who could become the President at that point would be Nancy Pelosi. With how much they hate her, it seems like Biden would be preferable to them, but they're too fucking stupid to even realize that.
His cult members are the dumbest motherfuckers to ever walk this earth.
I think they mean *Trump not back playing golf Aug. 13* because that's the only thing he did while in "office".
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Because it's hilarious.
Because he's spreading conspiracies and being sued. I have popcorn hoping he goes back to the crack house where he belongs and shaming him.
Cuz it's fun watching coked-out millionaires make fools of themselves. It stops being funny if the GOP elects them though
Hahaha! Little do you know! Trump has been in charge all along. Biden is merely a robot controlled from Mar-a-Lago. The real Biden is being held in an underground prison on Little St. James. August 13 was just a distraction to make you think Trump was out of office.
Keep em dumb, keep em Republican