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| THG:
Trump in ‘complete collapse’ on key issue: Enten & econ analysts react
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| second: Ever since the Customs and Border Protection agency opened a refund portal on April 20 for the more than 330,000 firms that paid over $166 billion in import taxes under Trump’s court-invalidated use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, corporate America has moved with striking unanimity. Not a single major company has publicly declined to pursue the money owed to them. Trump has responded, calling the refund-seekers people who “hate our country” and threatening to “remember” companies that pursue the money legally owed them.
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| second: “Trump is the only person who can save America, according to his cabinet.” The article offered a quantitative analysis of senior-official sycophancy. As the article notes, Donald Trump likes to hold long, televised cabinet meetings. In these meetings, on average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents.
This “Dear Leader” treatment is unprecedented in American history. Regardless of how successful, no previous president has been showered with this kind of obsequiousness and deification. [go to link] |
| second: Donald Trump has built a cult of personality.
Donald Trump's supporters have been nothing if not loyal to their leader. For the past decade, MAGA has stood by their man through 34 felony convictions, endless hate-filled rhetoric, the killings of innocent Americans, and potential war crimes, all while blatantly disregarding the Constitution and constantly lying.
MAGA's fanatical devotion to the president has prompted some experts to suggest that it constitutes a cult.
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| 6ixStringJack: Hey Google AI. How many black people died in Jonestown? "Approximately 630 Black individuals—constituting nearly 69% of the total 918 victims—died on November 18, 1978, in the Jonestown massacre. The majority of these victims were Black women and children." |
| 6ixStringJack: Cult leader Jim Jones of kool-aid fame was OG Woketard. Everything he said while taking over the lives of primarily black people he indoctrinated sounds like the Democratic Party in the 2020s. Don't believe me? Read a fuckin' book, goontard. |
| second: Cult leader Jim Jones of kool-aid fame, used to fake assassination attempts so that his cult would worship him harder. Just a fun bit of history for you. Need more context to connect history to Trump? According to historical records and accounts from former Peoples Temple members, Jones constantly stoked fear of harassment by "enemies" to tighten his grip on his congregation. To make these threats feel incredibly real to his followers, he would orchestrate entirely staged assassination attempts on his own life. During his sermons, he would suddenly have the speech interrupted by the crack of gunfire—often arranged to happen right outside the building—and then dramatically announce to the terrified crowd that someone was trying to kill him. [go to link]/ |
| 6ixStringJack: Why is that funny? Be specific. |
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| THG: Funny how comrade signym who has posted here for years complaining about everything that is wrong with America is now silent. |
| second: Think how often Trump mocks his predecessors as “dumb” and praises himself as “smart.” Those predecessors, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, all had to ponder military responses to Iranian terrorism and aggression. They decided to not wage a major war against Iranian national territory. Among the prime deterrents to action: the Strait of Hormuz problem. Trump decided that a problem that was too hard for everybody else would magically disappear for him. |
6ixStringJack: It's okay that you're gay, faggot.  |
| second: You don't want to have too many assassination attempts or people might become desensitized to them like mass shootings. |
| 6ixStringJack: I should have seen it all along. Of course that's why you are the way you are. This explains everything. |
| second: Shout out to Volodymyr Zelenskyy for surviving actual assassination attempts and never demanding a ballroom once. |
| 6ixStringJack: I got you pegged. Figuratively, sicko. You've never shut the hell up once in your life, and twice now you've completely ignored when I posted that your dad hated you because you are a homosexual. Sucks bro. Better luck next life. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh yeah? Let's hear it from the gay, impotent leader then. Oh right. He's dead. Iran is not a person. Who in Iran disagrees so we know who's ass to send a rocket up. |
| 6ixStringJack: Oh yeah? Let's hear it from the gay, impotent leader then. Oh right. He's dead. Iran is not a person. Who in Iran disagrees so we know who's ass to send a rocket up. |
| second: Trump claims peace deal 'largely negotiated' (Iran says it is not) as Iran excludes nuclear program from initial framework and disputes Strait of Hormuz reopening. [go to link]/ |