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The Cult of Trump; His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism.
Topic Started: Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM (671 Views)
Attaburnsinhell

As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
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^^^fake news...
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^^^fake news...
^^^Fake post.
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Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.


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I approve of tax cuts for myself!!! :cheers:



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I approve of tax cuts for myself!!! :cheers:



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have a great time...stay
Edited by CautionaryTales, Dec 13 2016, 01:17 PM.


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Dec 13 2016, 01:14 PM
I approve of tax cuts for myself!!! :cheers:



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Foreign beaches will be the best place for you Robert,
Fiji is the Bomb!!!! Ever been?

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^^^fake news...
^^^Fake post.
Alternet is a trusted news source for the news board for the libs????....ah OK....lemme run over to infowars and see what goodies the gotz for you people ...yes you people....btw I hear there is a new movie out....

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Dec 13 2016, 01:18 PM
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I approve of tax cuts for myself!!! :cheers:



More of this please:
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Foreign beaches will be the best place for you Robert,
Fiji is the Bomb!!!! Ever been?

Nope.

I did get to the Caribbean at least once a year, generally in February.


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Dec 13 2016, 01:13 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.
At this point it's pretty much pointless conversing with his cult followers around here, or anywhere at this juncture. They just spew lie after lie, they've investing everything in him. Deprogramming would be needed first to dislodge them from their deep state of delusional devotion

To them he's Kim Jung Um, Pol Pot, Mussolini, David Koresh, Charles Manson and Jim Jones, all mixed in a big orange stew

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Dec 13 2016, 01:21 PM
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Dec 13 2016, 01:13 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.
At this point it's pretty much pointless conversing with his cult followers around here, or anywhere at this juncture. They just spew lie after lie, they've investing everything in him. Deprogramming would be needed first to dislodge them from their deep state of delusional devotion

To them he's Kim Jung Um, Pol Pot, Mussolini, David Koresh, Charles Manson and Jim Jones, all mixed in a big orange stew

And we just got Kanye on board too....


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Wow, this author must be really young or really naive. Seriously, who is more Cult of Personality than Obama or BJ Clinton? Kennedy? Churchill? De Gaulle? Nixon?

It has always been this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
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Dec 13 2016, 01:09 PM
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^^^fake news...
^^^Fake post.
Alternet is a trusted news source for the news board for the libs????....ah OK....lemme run over to infowars and see what goodies the gotz for you people ...yes you people....btw I hear there is a new movie out....

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Trump has indeed created a cult, it's members will follow him anywhere. :shakeshead:
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^^^Fake post.
To them any reputable news or opinion piece critical of dear leader and his cult is to be deemed ''fake news''

This is critical to controlling their thoughts. Only what dear leader deems ''truth'', like Breitbart, Infowars, etc should be mandatory reading
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Dec 13 2016, 01:27 PM
clone
Dec 13 2016, 01:20 PM
70-101
Dec 13 2016, 01:09 PM
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Dec 13 2016, 12:59 PM
^^^fake news...
^^^Fake post.
Alternet is a trusted news source for the news board for the libs????....ah OK....lemme run over to infowars and see what goodies the gotz for you people ...yes you people....btw I hear there is a new movie out....

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Trump has indeed created a cult, it's members will follow him anywhere. :shakeshead:
Don't worry. We'll drag you along for the ride :)
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Dec 13 2016, 01:21 PM
CautionaryTales
Dec 13 2016, 01:13 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.
At this point it's pretty much pointless conversing with his cult followers around here, or anywhere at this juncture. They just spew lie after lie, they've investing everything in him. Deprogramming would be needed first to dislodge them from their deep state of delusional devotion

To them he's Kim Jung Um, Pol Pot, Mussolini, David Koresh, Charles Manson and Jim Jones, all mixed in a big orange stew

Koresh and Manson did have a thing for young girls, like Trump

They seem to believe young flesh adds to their immortality



Edited by Attaburnsinhell, Dec 13 2016, 03:06 PM.
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Dec 13 2016, 01:21 PM
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Dec 13 2016, 01:13 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.
At this point it's pretty much pointless conversing with his cult followers around here, or anywhere at this juncture. They just spew lie after lie, they've investing everything in him. Deprogramming would be needed first to dislodge them from their deep state of delusional devotion

To them he's Kim Jung Um, Pol Pot, Mussolini, David Koresh, Charles Manson and Jim Jones, all mixed in a big orange stew

I agree. A few of them made it to my ignore list as it was a total waste of time to discuss anything with them anymore.
First time I've used that button and I have to say it's a pleasure not seeing their asinine commentary anymore.


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Dec 13 2016, 03:06 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 01:21 PM
CautionaryTales
Dec 13 2016, 01:13 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.
At this point it's pretty much pointless conversing with his cult followers around here, or anywhere at this juncture. They just spew lie after lie, they've investing everything in him. Deprogramming would be needed first to dislodge them from their deep state of delusional devotion

To them he's Kim Jung Um, Pol Pot, Mussolini, David Koresh, Charles Manson and Jim Jones, all mixed in a big orange stew

I agree. A few of them made it to my ignore list as it was a total waste of time to discuss anything with them anymore.
First time I've used that button and I have to say it's a pleasure not seeing their asinine commentary anymore.
Opposing view points frighten you
Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary.
#MAGA
#wallsnotwars
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Dec 13 2016, 03:07 PM
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Dec 13 2016, 03:06 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 01:21 PM
CautionaryTales
Dec 13 2016, 01:13 PM
Attaburnsinhell
Dec 13 2016, 12:23 PM
As of this writing, Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks, which, aside from conspiracy-monger Steve Bannon, look like the usual rightward Wall Street and D.C. insiders. The Trump regime seems so far like it will promote an uglier and more aggressive version of the standard Republican policies: deregulation, privatization, and tax cuts for the wealthy. We can expect to see over the coming years the continued decline of the middle class, a shrinking social safety net, an acceleration of environmental catastrophe, unchecked corporate malfeasance, expanding federal deficits, and a deepening of the surveillance state. There will most likely be diversionary tactics in the form of more warfare abroad and the concomitant curtailing of civil liberties at home. Trump will likely fulfill many of his campaign promises, albeit in scaled-down versions. But don’t expect his followers to abandon him even if he reneges on many key commitments from his electric, nationalistic rallies.

The rallies explain Trump far more than his vague policy prescriptions. His followers view him as a sort of prophet of American triumphalism. The stadium becomes the evangelical circus tent of renewal and transformation: a purgation of America through ecstatic trampling of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. The cult of personality around Trump and his family goes a long way towards explaining his popularity. His followers support him through a maneuver of sympathetic magic: by supporting this bombastic billionaire (a euphemistic phrase, but words fail the sheer scope of his ego), they hope to imbibe some of his Midas touch. Ethics and accountability be damned: his fawning admirers want a slice of the proverbial pie even if it comes at someone else’s expense. They are not bothered by Trump University or the Atlantic City bankruptcies—they just want a piece of the action.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/cult-trump
That's all pretty much the case.
Putin's American Governor is little more than a cult leader...that happens to be beholden to a master.

Gonna be a long American winter.
At this point it's pretty much pointless conversing with his cult followers around here, or anywhere at this juncture. They just spew lie after lie, they've investing everything in him. Deprogramming would be needed first to dislodge them from their deep state of delusional devotion

To them he's Kim Jung Um, Pol Pot, Mussolini, David Koresh, Charles Manson and Jim Jones, all mixed in a big orange stew

I agree. A few of them made it to my ignore list as it was a total waste of time to discuss anything with them anymore.
First time I've used that button and I have to say it's a pleasure not seeing their asinine commentary anymore.
Opposing view points frighten you
One should take caution when around people not right in the head, as are most Trump followers
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