Pretty sure it's a cult.
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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It’s the dictionary definition of a Cult of Personality
Nah, just very passionate about seeing the world burn down 👍
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On one hand: old man who lowered drug costs, forgived some student debt, invested in mental health, expanded healthcare for 3.5 million veterans, presiding over the lowest American unemployment rate in fifty years
Other side: racist old impeached traitor sex predator fraudster convict grifting his own grassroots political donors.
You forgot traitor. It's the worst one in my book and shouldn't be left out.
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Who has referred to vets as losers and suckers.
Hmmm... that second guy sounds kinda interesting, but i dunno... I might vote for him if he could also ramble incoherently
Ask and you shall receive.
Not only can he ramble incoherently, he's been shown to speak at a 4th grade level!
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a39031/trump-fourth-grade-level/
Choices choices! 😞
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It's like they legit don't know how government works and they want a President just like them.
"I know it sounds crazy" -local zealot.
Wait.
If Trump is an incarcerated felon, he can't vote.
That's funny.
Phone rings: This call is from an inmate in the state penitentiary, press 1 to accept a collect call from inmate [President Donald Trump]
They have so much energy to follow him around.
And I question like... Do you work? Or do you get govt handouts?
Lost people is all they are. Using threats of violence to push their stupid useless world they made up in their minds. They deserve nothing but a kick in the teeth if and when they attack.
Knowing fans of him, no shock.
I'd say let them all personally hang out with president treason the entire Time.
if it gets stolen again, it might be a third world war.
USA liberals better start buying some guns
There are plenty of us that already own them, but you're not wrong.
Can we make a litmus test to make sure people are mentally stable enough to have their voice counted?
If you support a career criminal for public office you don't deserve to have the same voice as a sane citizen.
Because they're in prison too, and they hope it means they'll get to worship him in person.
MAGAts are a total loss and should be written down.
Yes, please do. You'll be handing a decisive win to Biden. The Trump cult isn't gaining members, and some are defecting to RFK Jr (probably one of the funniest consequences of the embrace of conspiracy theories), so I'm okay with y'all throwing away your vote on a felon.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“If he’s convicted and he wins, put the Oval Office in whatever prison they have him in,” Dayna Duke, a Trump supporter from Arizona, said.
His lawyers would no doubt argue that he should not be in prison because it would impede him from doing his job as the newly elected president of the United States and would push to get him out.
Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian and professor at Rice University, said that while the possibility is remote, it’s “plausible” Trump could be president — even briefly — while in prison.
The former Missouri state senator with a budding political future spent a year in a Kentucky correctional facility after pleading guilty in 2009 to lying to federal authorities about illegal campaign activities.
Even after Trump recently upped his violent rhetoric on the campaign trail by suggesting that former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley deserved to face the death penalty, among other statements, most of his supporters stood fervently by his words.
“The weaponized, two-tiered justice system brought by Joe Biden and radical Democrats to go after their leading political opponent sends a chilling message that this is acceptable in this country.”
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