https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-gXGASsJJI

Fixed it.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 31^st, 2026 at 4:35pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-gXGASsJJI

This video gives a good analysis of the cult, its members - e.g. Frank, JaSin, Bobby, aquascoot, et al. - and how it will end.

Donald Trump is a loon. But his supporters are even worse. A friend that spent time in the United States in the late 2010s (just after Trump's election) said that trying to dialogue with any MAGA person was like trying to have a casual talk with a wrestling fan. There is no intellect. And they do their utmost to be bullies.

greggerypeccary wrote on Aug 31^st, 2026 at 4:35pm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-gXGASsJJI

All excellent points, Greggery. The Weber take is most interesting. Three forms of power - traditional, legal and charismatic.

Back when the old boy was a Neocon, he followed the former. Uncle has to play sheriff, he said. Superior culture. Rule of law, innit.

Now he's an authoritarian charismatic, the law no longer matters. DL's the one, he says. Give in to your overwhelming desire to obey.

They're now using totally programmed bot-speak. Aquascoot's been using it for years - the Real Americans, the chodes, the Superior Man, he upon the "narrow road to success". Stuff he's read on the back of self-help books, things he's heard on Joe Rogan, preachy rants on Sky News, all mixed up and packaged into a love of he, a desperate search for meaning and identity, all fed by the algorithm.

Not sure why we worry about AI. Superior intelligence could create a far better cult than this. St Paul created a mainstream cult out of an angry political agitator. It lasted two millenia.

Right now, churches all over America are preaching DL. The actual gospel is ignored entirely. As Americans have become poorer and more dumb, prosperity doctrine has given way to the right to bear arms, misogyny, white supremacy and grabbing clicks on social media. They don't even know what Jesus is supposed to have said - they now worship an adulterous convicted felon as their saviour.

You couldn't make it up. It's the most unbelievable schema we've ever been sold, but there it is.

They're already covering their arses. DL will be dead in less than a decade.

How do you think they'll play it then?

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 31^st, 2026 at 5:08pm:

Donald Trump is a loon. But his supporters are even worse. A friend that spent time in the United States in the late 2010s (just after Trump's election) said that trying to dialogue with any MAGA person was like trying to have a casual talk with a wrestling fan. There is no intellect. And they do their utmost to be bullies.

We're dealing with people who cheer on double-tap strikes on fishing boats and threats to end an entire CIVILISATION TONIGHT.

We're dealing with potential ISIS recruits, without the 72 virgins and the martyrdom.

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 31^st, 2026 at 5:08pm:

Donald Trump is a loon. But his supporters are even worse. A friend that spent time in the United States in the late 2010s (just after Trump's election) said that trying to dialogue with any MAGA person was like trying to have a casual talk with a wrestling fan. There is no intellect. And they do their utmost to be bullies.

They are utterly gone once they get sucked into the MAGA cult. There is nothing Trump does that will shake the support of diehard MAGA. Sure, some have come to their senses and left, but not nearly enough. We see it every day on this forum - halfwits like Frank, Leroy and Jasin who can't think for themselves, only parrot MAGA talking points and take what chronic liars in the administration say as gospel.

Enquiring mind wrote on Aug 31^st, 2026 at 6:52pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 31st, 2026 at 5:08pm: Donald Trump is a loon. But his supporters are even worse. A friend that spent time in the United States in the late 2010s (just after Trump's election) said that trying to dialogue with any MAGA person was like trying to have a casual talk with a wrestling fan. There is no intellect. And they do their utmost to be bullies. We're dealing with people who cheer on double-tap strikes on fishing boats and threats to end an entire CIVILISATION TONIGHT. We're dealing with potential ISIS recruits, without the 72 virgins and the martyrdom.

We are dealing with morons who still refuse to accept that Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square despite him losing more than 60 court cases trying to overturn the result. That's including some cases before Trump-appointed judges, just so it's clear there was no bias. But aside from that, if it were true, why were the Democrats so competent at not only pulling it off and not being caught, but not competent enough to pull it off again four years later? The math ain't mathing!

If you think that a country like the US, who have used two nuclear bombs on a country, invaded and subverted Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, killing millions of ordinary people.
Have assassinated the leadership, their families and 168 schoolgirls together with thousands of civilians in Iran, have actively participated in Israel’s genocide in Palestine,  are by any stretch of the imagination the good guys, then my friends, I am afraid you have miserably failed the very basic test of humanity.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 1^st, 2026 at 6:14am:

If you think that a country like the US, who have used two nuclear bombs on a country, invaded and subverted Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, killing millions of ordinary people. Have assassinated the leadership, their families and 168 schoolgirls together with thousands of civilians in Iran, have actively participated in Israel’s genocide in Palestine,  are by any stretch of the imagination the good guys, then my friends, I am afraid you have miserably failed the very basic test of humanity.

I used to admire the US system of government where you could have a President of one party appoint someone from another party for a cabinet role simply because they were that good. Trump has broken that and proven just how easily the Presidential system in America can be corrupted. Hasn’t happened before until he came along in his second term.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 1^st, 2026 at 7:14am:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 1st, 2026 at 6:14am: If you think that a country like the US, who have used two nuclear bombs on a country, invaded and subverted Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, killing millions of ordinary people. Have assassinated the leadership, their families and 168 schoolgirls together with thousands of civilians in Iran, have actively participated in Israel’s genocide in Palestine,  are by any stretch of the imagination the good guys, then my friends, I am afraid you have miserably failed the very basic test of humanity. I used to admire the US system of government where you could have a President of one party appoint someone from another party for a cabinet role simply because they were that good. Trump has broken that and proven just how easily the Presidential system in America can be corrupted. Hasn’t happened before until he came along in his second term.

their system is open to abuse and corruption.
even when he has gone, it will still be the same flawed system.

250 years of indoctrinating propaganda has left a large portion of the population devoid of critical thinking.
They have no curiosity and no desire for knowledge other than what they are told.
They are effectively complete morons.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 1^st, 2026 at 6:14am:

If you think that a country like the US, who have used two nuclear bombs on a country, invaded and subverted Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, killing millions of ordinary people. Have assassinated the leadership, their families and 168 schoolgirls together with thousands of civilians in Iran, have actively participated in Israel’s genocide in Palestine,  are by any stretch of the imagination the good guys, then my friends, I am afraid you have miserably failed the very basic test of humanity.

The Dems weren't always as blody mindedly 'pwogwessive' as they have become since they lost to Dubya.

Open borders, cant say what a woman is, relentles race caiting, multiculturalism, America-hate, Submission to Islam, etc, etc, etc.  They used to be butch - Kennedy, Johnson - but then turned disabled undocumented CALD trannies.

Bazza Hussein (ahem... O'Bama didnt help:

Race baiting is the throughline between the mainstream media’s response to Donald Trump descending the golden escalator in June 2015, the Very Fine People Hoax, the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent assertion that “the MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy”. Barack Obama’s declaration, back in 2015, that racism is a part of “America’s DNA” tells us much about his role in setting back race relations in the United States half a century. Thedisingenuous Unifier-in-Chief manufactured an enemy—white folk who “cling to guns and religion”—that gave a purpose to his otherwise purposeless time in office. It came at the cost of polarising Americans and tearing the country apart.

Sprintcyclist wrote on Sep 1^st, 2026 at 8:25am:

250 years of indoctrinating propaganda has left a large portion of the population devoid of critical thinking. They have no curiosity and no desire for knowledge other than what they are told. They are effectively complete morons.

That's why they elected O'Bama three times, eh?


You havent deployed critical thinking for years, sprinty.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/album/forum-attachments/maga.jpeg

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 1^st, 2026 at 9:45am:

http://www.ozpolitic.com/album/forum-attachments/maga.jpeg

Who would want your brain, scurrilous, lying creep?

http://www.ozpolitic.com/album/forum-attachments/maga.jpeg

Armchair_Politician wrote on Sep 1^st, 2026 at 6:04am:

Enquiring mind wrote on Aug 31st, 2026 at 6:52pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 31st, 2026 at 5:08pm: Donald Trump is a loon. But his supporters are even worse. A friend that spent time in the United States in the late 2010s (just after Trump's election) said that trying to dialogue with any MAGA person was like trying to have a casual talk with a wrestling fan. There is no intellect. And they do their utmost to be bullies. We're dealing with people who cheer on double-tap strikes on fishing boats and threats to end an entire CIVILISATION TONIGHT. We're dealing with potential ISIS recruits, without the 72 virgins and the martyrdom. We are dealing with morons who still refuse to accept that Trump lost the 2020 election fair and square despite him losing more than 60 court cases trying to overturn the result. That's including some cases before Trump-appointed judges, just so it's clear there was no bias. But aside from that, if it were true, why were the Democrats so competent at not only pulling it off and not being caught, but not competent enough to pull it off again four years later? The math ain't mathing!

Trump was obsessive compulsive to the point that he probably wanted to get his second term out of the way before he was too old to retire comfortably.

They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret It

The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.
https://www.wired.com/story/they-fled-trumps-america-now-they-regret-it/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_f615efc8-c595-4c4d-bbaa-7dd27181b485_popular4-2

“Something I had taken for granted is the American outgoingness and default to action, where the question is ‘how can we collaborate?’” she said. “Generally speaking, I also found that the American work style, for better or for worse, moves much faster and can get to a yes or no in less time.”

Another expat named Josh moved to Berlin in 2023, anticipating Trump winning in 2024. He had lived in Germany before, spoke German, and had friends in that capital city.

“But his expectations, particularly when it came to his career, didn’t align with reality,” Wired reported.
“Finding work was so hard, and the endless bureaucracy had grown worse since I’d left,” Josh told the tech magazine.

“I missed the friendlier people, freedom of speech, and ease of daily life” in the United States, he said. He added of German daily life, “If you aren’t born and raised there, and don’t look German, you’ll never be fully accepted.

Josh told the magazine he reversed his move and is much happier back in the U.S.

He acknowledged may have “overreacted” by fleeing to Europe.

...

“American liberals want to import European socialist ideas and wave after wave of third world immigrants into the US, but it turns out that in real life, socialism and mass immigration produce countries that are poorer, less productive, and less enjoyable to call home,” he said.

He added, “American liberals who moved to Europe are experiencing that firsthand…the European malaise is a real wake-up call.”

https://youtu.be/8h96iRFrx38