Sickophants

[GoCubsGo]

So how would she suggest people express their views on a person that is not elected, not qualified, downright loony, and has the authority to affect the health of their families? Let's make a list of suggestions: Call? Text? Email? Social Media? Request a meeting? Sure, that's the ticket. Yell at him every time he leaves the house until or unless he starts paying attention to people who actually know what they're talking about in public health.

If you're going to be a public official or personality be prepared to face the public.

[O Really]

So how would she suggest people express their views on a person that is not elected, not qualified, downright loony, and has the authority to affect the health of their families? Let's make a list of suggestions: Call? Text? Email? Social Media? Request a meeting? Sure, that's the ticket. Yell at him every time he leaves the house until or unless he starts paying attention to people who actually know what they're talking about in public health.

If you're going to be a public official or personality be prepared to face the public.

Sure, although I don't know that all aspects of their lives have to be on display 24/7. But IMNVHO, Kennedy's situation is different from most other public figures - first, he's not elected and the person who appointed him isn't going to hold him accountable for doing a responsible job. That would apply to the other cabinet members, too, but most of the others don't have quite such a direct effect on life/death issues, and most of them actually aren't as blatantly irresponsible as Kennedy. Take Education for example. It may be stupid to dismantle the Department of Education, but it's really mostly a funding mechanism and doesn't control curriculum or teaching standards and no kids are going to be subjected to an epidemic because of the DOE. But Kennedy's effect is much more direct and potentially harmful on a massive basis.

[GoCubsGo]

Guess DonOld is out of the country.




Edit: yep.

[GoCubsGo]

I swear, these mofo's get weirder by the day.

[Vrede too]

Trump Makes Revealing Comment About Stephen Miller's 'Truest Feelings'

... Trump then thanked Miller for “doing an unbelievable job,” and added, “The people of this country love you, I’ll tell you, and they love what you say about crime and stopping crime.” ...

CALL TO ACTIVISM

WHOA: Trump humiliates Stephen Miller after asking him to speak ...

Even Trump knows he’s evil. Miller needs a PSYCH EVAL not a WH job.

This is like when Trump said Epstein liked girls 'a little on the younger side'.

He is fully aware of the depravity of those around him... and every once in awhile he lets that slip.

He's proud of it.

they know he's a fucking nazi, man

Governor Newsom Press Office

Stephen Miller’s true feelings

Joel🕊Waterman☪☮𝔼✡☯✝

Why am I getting the feeling that his truest feelings are something like some of the trash that some of those Young Republicans were caught saying?…

Oh, right; because even MTG is now saying that the Trump administration’s immigration policies are going to far.

Fire Miller.

“Maybe not his truest feelings” yeah, because those belong in a history museum exhibit on fascist propaganda.

Just don’t shine your inner Goebbels. We’ve seen that movie before, and it doesn’t end well for democracy.

I swear, these mofo's get weirder by the day.

https://x.com/SaraForTexLege/status/1986503538436886930

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1986632623960043595

Smh.

I'll see your Oz and Jagoff and raise you a Creepy Miller.


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In my opinion, this is not the way a citizen of a republic speaks.

As much as I despise Stephen Miller I have to grudgingly acknowledge his ability to play and manipulate Trump. Trump is too stupid to know he’s being played and Miller gets his fascist agenda advanced.

Welcome to North Korea
Bow and worship Dear Leader!

The language of dictators and fascists - @StephenM has perfected it

Jorie Graham
(Pulitzer Prize in Poetry....)
I mean. I mean this actually happened

Every cult has a moment like this when the flattery gets so wild you start wondering if they believe it.

Usually, we find out that they do.

I don't seem to recall the country dying a year ago, and I'm pretty observant about these things.

Even post-Soviet Turkmen petrostate cult of personality strongmen would start feeling slightly awkward over this

[Vrede too]

I swear, these mofo's get weirder by the day.

https://x.com/SaraForTexLege/status/1986503538436886930

https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1986632623960043595

They're relentless.

Ex-federal worker accused of staging own attack with slashes, political slurs on body

A former congressional staffer has been accused of faking a violent political attack that included hiring someone to slice into her body.

Natalie Greene, 26, and her co-conspirator staged the attack on a nature trail, prosecutors allege, then told police that three gunmen attacked Greene, tied her up, wrote "Trump whore" on her stomach, and cut her dozens of times.

Greene told police she was targeted because she worked for New Jersey Republican Representative Jefferson Van Drew, who was not named in the indictment but whose office confirmed her former employment.

Greene has been charged with conspiracy to falsely report a violent attack and giving false statements to law enforcement.

... When police responded, they found Greene's hands and feet bound with zip ties, her shirt pulled over her head, and the words "Trump whore" written across her stomach and "[federal official] is a racist" across her back, the indictment says.

... During the investigation, police said they found Greene and her co-conspirator's stories did not match up. Police also found that Greene's co-conspirator had searched "zip ties near me" prior to the incident, and the same zip ties were found in Greene's Maserati.

Police also said they found a receipt showing that Greene had paid a body modification artist $500 to slice her body on the same day as the incident.

MAGAts are pretty dim criminals.

... Greene faces up to 10 years in prison and a combined $500,000 fine if convicted on both counts. She was released on a $200,000 bond....

When MAGAts can't imagine victimhood they invent it.



When she's right, she's right.

[GoCubsGo]

Perfect!

[O Really]

Who in any lifetime would have thought that Oz or Wonderland would realistically make more sense than the US? Or that a comparison of a real* US president could be made so easily with a very fictional 1865 queen from a hallucinating author?

A federal judge compared one of President Donald Trump's executive orders to the tyrannical demands of the Queen of Hearts from Lewis Carroll's 19th-century book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell made the comparison Wednesday while temporarily blocking part of Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie, which worked with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016.

AI Overview
Queen of Hearts Character
The Queen of Hearts symbolizes absolute power and unchecked emotion, representing the arbitrary and tyrannical rules of the adult world from a child's perspective. She is an embodiment of "ungovernable passion," whose threats of beheading are frequent but ultimately hollow, as her power is not absolute and her punishments are often nonsensical. Ultimately, she is one of many confusing obstacles Alice must overcome on her journey.
Absolute Rule and Emotion: The Queen embodies pure, unchecked emotion, such as rage and pride, and uses it to exert absolute, though ultimately meaningless, rule.
The Adult World: She represents the confusing and often ruthless punishments and rules that children face in the adult world, particularly during the Victorian era.
Symbolic vs. Real Power: Though she commands and threatens execution, Alice realizes the Queen is just a playing card with no real power. The King of Hearts often pardons those she sentences, and her threats are eventually revealed to be empty.
A Figure of Ridicule: Her pronouncements are revealed to be foolish, making her a figure of ridicule rather than genuine terror, which Alice ultimately exposes to overcome her.

[O Really]

The only people I can think of whose followers are as loyal as Trump's, even in the face of his corruption, etc., are Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and other cult leaders whose followers actually died for them.

Why trumpers stay

Some group members will leave when their leader begins to deteriorate, but many will double-down on their devotion, because watching the breakdown of their leader fills them with empathy and concern — and they feel more distrust or even hatred of outsiders.

Or they tell themselves stories about their leader’s divinity or his wisdom, or blame outsiders for driving him off the deep end.

Characteristics of a Cult Leader

The leader or group has an inflated sense of importance and connection to greatness.
The leader’s needs, ideas, and desires are overriding; they erase the needs, ideas, and desires of group members.
The leader can do or say almost anything without repercussions; there are no checks or balances on his or her behavior.
The leader belittles all other ideas and belief systems, and any other leaders who are in the leader’s realm (e.g., other New Age leaders if the leader has a New Age philosophy).
The leader takes credit for anything good that happens, and blames others for anything bad that happens.
The leader treats questions and challenges as threats, and he or she may see enemies everywhere – inside and outside the group.
Members must idealize and revere the leader and the ranking leadership.
Members who challenge the authority of the leader or leadership group are punished, publicly humiliated, shunned, or kicked out, and may be portrayed as enemy traitors.
The leader claims special powers, knowledge, and lineage – or may claim to be divine.

[Vrede too]

The only people I can think of whose followers are as loyal as Trump's, even in the face of his corruption, etc., are Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and other cult leaders whose followers actually died for them.

Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Juan Peron, Fidel Castro, Haile Selassie, Joseph Stalin, Egypt's Pharaohs, Mao Zedong . . .

[O Really]

The only people I can think of whose followers are as loyal as Trump's, even in the face of his corruption, etc., are Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and other cult leaders whose followers actually died for them.

Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Juan Peron, Fidel Castro, Haile Selassie, Joseph Stalin, Egypt's Pharaohs, Mao Zedong . . .

Good list, but a lot of those kept followers just through force of dictator and suppression. IMNVHO, being able to attain and retain power isn't necessarily the same as irrationally keeping followers. Sure, the repug politicians get intimidated and threatened, but not the general basket of trumpers.

[Vrede too]

The only people I can think of whose followers are as loyal as Trump's, even in the face of his corruption, etc., are Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and other cult leaders whose followers actually died for them.

Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Juan Peron, Fidel Castro, Haile Selassie, Joseph Stalin, Egypt's Pharaohs, Mao Zedong . . .

Good list, but a lot of those kept followers just through force of dictator and suppression. IMNVHO, being able to attain and retain power isn't necessarily the same as irrationally keeping followers. Sure, the repug politicians get intimidated and threatened, but not the general basket of trumpers.

I hear what you're saying, but I think a lot of that "force of dictator and suppression" was carried out by adoring cultists and even that was often unnecessary at least in the early years due to the worshipful complicity of the populace.

[neoplacebo]

I think the concept of race as it relates to cults should be brought up. Just for the sake of supes to have something to be a victim of.