• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      No, this is real.

      Roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of this country is in a goofy as fuck, anti-reality, violent and dangerous death cult, called MAGA.

      You know how like in Japan or SK, large wealthy cults have an outsized impact on politics, scandals when it turns out a PM or whoever got a bunch of money from one?

      We elected our cult leader president.

      Thats… thats roughly the framing you need, for this to maybe actually make sense in your brain, as anything other than the worlds grandest reality TV show.


      Yougov recently did a poll.

      https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/54707-how-many-americans-think-they-could-beat-donald-trump-in-a-fight

      On average, 66% of Americans think they could win a fight, an actual fist fight, with Donald Trump.

      10% thought they’d lose, 24% unsure.

      Now break it down by party.

      Democrats:

      75% would win, 5% would lose, 20% unsure.

      Republicans:

      39% would win, 33% would lose, 28% unsure.

      So thats’s 25% of Dems don’t think they’re certain to win, vs 61% of Reps don’t think they’re certain to win…

      … a fight against an obese and literally demented 79 year old with bone spurs, who wears diapers, and is often seen nodding off during meetings.

      You really can only explain something like this by framing the hardcore MAGA folks as delusional, mentally impaired cult members.

      They have Trump Derangement Syndrome, but its the opposite of what they think it is… its North Korea levels of Dear Leader god-king worship.

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          Hah!

          Oh, he will have them after I get a shot at him.

          EDIT:

          If Kash Patel is reading this, ‘get a shot at him’ is a colloquial phrase that indicates a chance to engage another in hand to hand combat, contextually as a hypothetical, potentially involving hyperbole.

          I know it’s hard to read things straight after a bender, been there buddy.

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            Jokes on you, Patel only saw the excerpt that AI showed him…and he was waaaaaay too wasted to be able to read it

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      Yes, plenty of people with this kind of mentality exist in the USA.

      I don’t know if this particular person is satire or not, and I’m not going to spend any time hunting down their profile to verify.

      The fact that they aren’t blaming Biden in both of these posts makes me think it’s satire, though. Because the very limited exposure I still have in real life to people of this general political persuasion suggests that they’re all about blaming Biden for the current spike in gas and grocery prices. I’ve heard several different variations of why them blame Biden for current gas prices, but it mostly boils down to a nebulous, tangential line of reasoning that Biden didn’t start a war with Iran during his term.

      As though dealing with the consequences of Trump’s disastrous handling of COVID and the economy wasn’t enough, they apparently think Biden should have also been bombing Iran “back to the stone age.”

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        I don’t know if this particular person is satire or not

        It is not.

        This person is cognitive dissonance personified, they’re not capable of mental consistency, they are a delusional cult member, their brain works in such a way that it pretzels to find any possible reason to justify and glorify the cult leader.

        If you haven’t personally lost friends and family members to the MAGA cult, please trust me, I am being completely serious.