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Fucking dorks
And the fascists keep marching along for their furher. >

For some he is their leader, for others he is their king, and I bet for a select few he is their god.
In the back of my mind, when thinking about them, I hear the Nine Inch Nails Song Head Like A Hole.
"Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve" >

Those lyrics are from Head Like A Hole, still a NIN song though >

Yea I had to correct that after re-reading my response.  It flipped on me for some reason. >

Happens to all of us, NIN rules though anyway >

it's an anti American fascist cult. >

Which is why it pisses me off that they call themselves patriots >

It’s a tactic of the Confederacy, mainly the Neo confederates.  The State’s Rights people portray themselves as the true patriots, fighting against the tyranny of the Federal government.  
Lincoln said, he doesn’t know if God is on his side, but he hopes that he is on God’s side.  
The conservatives have convinced (deluded) themselves that God is on their side, and that they’re the true patriots, so they can justify all of their actions.  
So they don’t view January 6th as an insurrection, and if they do, then they justify it as necessary. >

Remember how slavishly defensive the Republicans were of Dubya Bush?  How any criticism was giving aid and comfort to the terrorists who hate us and want to kill us because of our freedoms? How they groomed children to literally pray for him ("Jesus Camp")?
Now he's persona non grata, but the sentiment has moved on though the man was discarded.  The entire Republican Party is a tongue searching for a boot. >

He was persona non grata the second his presidency ended. Remember that he was literally the most unpopular president since polling began. He got out of office and vanished from the GOP. McCain's platform was already 99% of Bush's. If W had been on the stage with him he would've lost even faster.
And since then there hasn't been an opportunity for him to come back, even if he wanted to. >

100% of Donald Trumps say loyalty doesn't mean shit. >

The article's title said another way... "65 percent of Republicans have apparently lost their fucking minds" >

I'm pretty sure the percentage is much higher than that and it should have been evident several years ago! >

And 95% of them will vote for Donald Trump again in 2024. >

My FIL tried to convince me Nixon has honorable because he was showing loyalty to his underlings by trying to cover for them, and the underlings were showing loyalty to him by doing what they did... These folks WANT these guys to be like mob families, so long as it's on their team. They will unironically call the democrats "the Biden crime family" while simultaneously bending over backward to find some positive adjective to attribute to their sides blatant crimes. >

Over 50% of Republicans still think Trump won in 2020. There is no such thing as a Republican that's not an extremist. Even if the particular Republican you're voting for gives lip service to moderate views, does that really matter when the entire party is goose stepping in unison behind Donald Trump? Every Republican voter is complicit. >

It’s worse than that. It’s not that they think T won. It’s that they don’t care if he lost. I think this is important huge distinction so we better understand why facts and lack of evidence don’t matter and why you can’t argue with them. They don’t actually care if T won or lost in free fair election. This is why it’s so difficult to counter… they just don’t care. More fundamentally, the reason they don’t care is decades in the making, making it even harder to move away and forward. T is a con man but also the perfect willing con man arriving at perfect time of disinformation, disaffection, and manufactured outrage, all designed over decades to divide us. >

I think many of them actually do think Trump won. They are so deep in MAGA and have a cult like following for the guy they genuinely can’t see why he didn’t get like 80% of the vote. >

There are 3 types of Republicans:

Duped rubes
Amoral assholes duping the rubes
Immoral assholes benefiting from the duping of rubes

The difference is academic. >

There's other categories, like duped rubes who think they're going to benefit from duping the other rubes. >

A rube by any other name etc etc >

Ridiculous. Loyalty to any politician is misplaced be it Republican or Democrat. But it's especially misplaced to an actual fucking con man. >


I fear that in every elected office, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls . . . There must be decency and respect.

– John Adams >

"Thomas Jefferson is a bastard brat of a Scotch peddler." 
— John Adams >

“Why don’t you suck on Deez… Deez nuts! Haha got ‘em!”

John Adams >

What a silly thing for them to think, loyalty to Trump is never returned. >

It's so surreal to see so many people so quickly sort of prostrate themselves before a game show host. Like 8 years ago this dude was just a TV celebrity with a Twitter habit.