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'Dark Enlightenment' has infected the moral code of these people.

This is the same in all cults and why cult leaders go out of their way to tell the most ridiculous, obvious lies possible. It's always a loyalty test.

Or, as one little old lady put it, "I love his lies."

Not just loyalty. Their whole strategy is to shoot first and lie about it later. And double down when called out. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

Extreme brain dead pathological liars only.

You know Trump revels in this. He probably gets a kick out of seeing types like Rubio, Cruz, Vance suck up to him knowing how deep down they don't like him.

That is a form of grifting; the primary ethic of the GOP.

Well, one of many negative points ... the emphasis and real point is the CRUELTY.

We as Democrats don't defend each other for good or for bad

bsky.app/profile/nava... Even MAGA can’t deny this

I think abuse is the tactic

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, after all

I BELIEVE IT'S A CULT & AND THIS BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN NORMALIZED BY DONALD "DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO"

The man gets it!!!!!!! 🎉🥳🎈🎊🎁

Yes, at this point they’ve proven time and again they don’t have the best interests of the electorate in mind, just their interests. The hypocrisy is comical. Their base is just too dumb to figure that out and that’s how the politicians like it.

You’re more than a little late. It’s always been calculated. To distract from the insider trading, selling pardons, no bid contracts, extortion of private industry and other assorted shake downs. With our tax dollars. It’s a criminal party train and all congressional Rs are knowingly riding it.

I am a Democrat and don't believe in a one-party system. But I don't believe in MAGA either. I would love to see a Republican party again. That was you, Liz Cheney, Al Gore. But there are none in Congress now.

It is also a "flex." "I get to do this to you. I get to self-contradict just to establish heads-I-win-tails-you-lose. You are subjugated to me. I am showing you it does not matter what I say to get what I want and take from you because all that matters is I have the power to do it. I own you."

There you go! One former cult member was walking with their group and said, "Hey, a cat." As one walked by. The leader said, "There was no cat." He said he immediately agreed. It's for loyalty and control. It's what all high-control groups do to their prey.

"The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole -- the church, party, nation -- and not to his fellow true believer.” Eric Hoffer.

Yeah, gotta say this is not surprising. Conservatives really struggle to understand fascists.

It’s a key asymmetric advantage. When only one side is beholden to truth and consistency, it’s like they’re flat-footed in a fight.

This is very well established in simulacra social systems theory.

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Hypocrisy is the point. Cruelty is the point. Blatant in-your-face corruption is the point.

Doublethink. It's like they read 1984 and thought it was a how-to manual.

It also proves how psychotic it all is; believe in the reality we make up over what is factually real. Santa Clause is real in that sense.

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None of the people in the Trump administration were appointed and approved for their roles because they were capable and qualified. All had to demonstrate constant and demeaning levels of subservience to their dear leader, Orangutan. Trump said his greatest mistake in term 1 was hiring experts.

Blue States/Cities, maybe MAGAism should be declared a form of mental terrorism perpetrated against sane Americans!

Same principle that has his administration officials wearing ridiculously oversized clown shoes.

Defending the CULT is their first responsibility.

It's not just in-group signaling- it's literally a fascist rhetorical flex. See Sartre on Antisemites: www.goodreads.com/quotes/78707...

And how we get out from the upside down we’re living in now? Society appears to be decaying in front of our eyes. Presidents can sue themselves and we pay the bill. Voters? Nah. The court will just hand the election to whoever they want. Laws? Not really. We do seem to be circling the drain.

This was the most sickening example of that, I've ever seen... Jennings is irredeemable now. Shows himself to be the kind of man that would've collaborated with Nazis... and tell himself 'It's for the greater good'. youtu.be/4sIfa2qjXNc?...

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And get elected in OK. My dog, Jake, would be a better candidate as long as endless snacks are approved by all the lightweights in congress.

Birds of a feather 🪶

They’ve been post-hypocrisy for a long time now. MAGA only cares to point it out with furious indignation when it’s Dems.

performative lying and self-aware sycophancy is still weakness. you can't support trump without being weak of will, mind, or character.

Let's hope it's just as permanent!

Sounds like a cult

Hypocrisy is one of the tenants of fascism, it's how they operate. Pointing it out does absolutely nothing. For the dumb magats that vote for it they need the lies to confirm their bias and they love how it pisses libs off regardless if it hurts them too.

The hypocrisy is part of the humiliation of the loyalist that ties them to The Master, that destroys independent thought. A right of passage, a proof of slavery. The Dark Mark of T-rump-world.

And apparently a method to exert power. If you can make people agree ‘there are five lights’ you are illustrating and cementing a tremendous amount of power

Right wing Christianity thinks getting away with lies and hypocrisy is a sign of dominance, and they *crave* a sense of dominance. Even vicariously. It's baked into their religion and its culture of abuse and oppression.

Intentional chaos meant to pre-empt.... something. It's hard to game the player or play the game when your opponent keeps moving the pieces around every time you use the restroom. (That made sense in my mind but now not so much.)

Most of the folks who were talked into believing MAGA propaganda, don’t have enough reasoning capacity to have built a coherent model of the world. It’s normal and reasonable, for them, for an argument to self contradict.

So when things start going south like when the prices start rising and Healthcare is no longer covered, they only have themselves to blame. Especially now since Trump said the quiet part out loud about not caring about the public.

Petruchio: I say it is the moon. Kate: I know it is the moon. Petruchio: Nay, then you lie. It is the blessed sun. Kate: Then, God be blessed, it is the blessed sun, But sun it is not when you say it is not.

Democracy ---> Idiocracy ---> President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Yes. They support all the lies no matter what. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/05/we-l...

MAGA is completely bonkers and their ok with that. We have to send these people back under the rock they crawled out of.

Not one wrestling fan in the past 50 years has claimed pro wrestling is real.

Excellent. 🙏🙏🙏💙

The GOP is building a dictatorship and blind loyalty is required to achieve it.

Honestly I think they laugh about it. What an arrogant group of pond scum

It’s a cult. They are addicted to power. It’s their drug of choice. Narcissistic regime

Who is becoming a leader for the Dem ?

I don’t get the loyalty! Trump is gone in a few years, at most. Then the history will be told. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yep, it's a cult tactic.

MAGA's dishonor has become pathological at this point.

So Tribe over content? The total voluntary loss of one's critical thinking?

Religions use the same formula for proving faith. The more self-contradictory a dogma, the more faith you need to adhere. Human nature is horribly susceptible to this formula.

For those that don’t know, the blatant hypocrisy is a powerful and effective form of gaslighting. It’s very purposeful - and the purveyors love that the unfairness is crazy-making. So - now that you know it’s a deliberate tactic - do it right back even better. That’s how to tame a narcissist.

This all tracks. It’s reflected in everything you said and more. The blatant redistricting efforts to subvert democracy is another clear example.

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I'm impressed with what a nightmare waking up to the reality of what conservative politics is must have been, and likely still is for you.

When they're out to " burn it all down ", the how you burn isn't important as burning.

The contradictions are a well-studied hallmark of fascism. Not as a badge of loyalty but as an assertion of power and impunity. "We impose rules; we do not suffer under rules." Please read some history of the movement snuffing out our democracy.

So sick

Americans, allowing themselves to be controlled by one man. Giving of their freedom, their own thoughts and actions, their soul. This has got to be the dumbest shit in history.

Okay Adam! Glad you caught up

EXACTLY. It's like "Democrat Party" or "Benghazi" or "Emails" or "Birth certificate" or mispronouncing Kamala Harris's name. MAGAs call it "virtue signaling" in others. But in fact, no one does it more than they do.

Here in the cheap seats, we just call it "the mindfuck". Adam, study "Reflexive Control" (RC) Russian Post Cold War Active Measures. You'll find the foundation of what's called "Public Relations". RC is a serious tool by which people's minds are changed with them being convinced it was their idea.

Hypocrisy is in fact the main shibboleth of supremacy because if you can't get away with restricted behavior then you're not really the one in power.

You described Cult to a tee.

Hypocrisy is demonstration of dominance. It’s the very root of conservatism. Laws bind you and protect me.

I'm thinking planet of the apes, troglodyte edition.

That's a scary thought, that they are rewarded for not questioning.

People with personality disorder, previously known by the term psychopaths, demand constant shows of loyalty and the more debasing they are the more it proves loyalty to the individual. No free ride when you’re friends with a psychopath.

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A tribalism reason makes more sense than my notion that obsession with getting a national abortion ban is a motive-though reasons for choosing devotion to an evil person may still involve ideology. 𝐑𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 "𝐮𝐬 𝐯𝐬. 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦" 𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲.

Hypocrisy is a VIRTUE to MAGA.

Hallmark of fascism

I also do not know why we are not calling out the parallel between #WMD as the excuse to attack Iraq and the nuclear bomb as the reason we are attacking Iran. Weren’t we required to #trust what the administration was telling us then? Am I missing something here?

Have you seen boebert talking about anything she does like,? she’s a weirdo crazy propaganda spewing like what she says is true. And she was voted into office. I feel I never would go to Colorado because I might get voodoo’ed or something

They have always believed that the end justifies the means. They will do anything and everything they can get away with until the people stop them.

By proving their loyalty to Trump they also prove they are people with no integrity or ethical, moral core.

Well said. This is exactly how it is.

Fascists love to lie, to prove that they don't really care what the truth is.

It's like a gang making their members get a face tattoo. Brand them so permanently that their only option is to stay in the gang.

It's the Don, the syndicate boss they kiss the ring for. It's like a mafia style family where you do the bosses bidding no matter what the ask. And whatever you do don't disappoint the family & the boss.

Consistently inconsistent, part of smoke&mirrors, sleight-of-hand, keep looking at the next shiny thing while the country goes bankrupt. Only one walks away with the $.

It is their life blood. That and projection.