politics

It's a cult

Reality genuinely doesn't play any part in things with them

In a less polarized and post truth world you’d probably be right. I fear however that the solid 36-37% maga base will never find an issue that can’t be spun or rationalized.

It's not an accident...

When Nixon resigned, Roger Ailes wrote a memo that accidentally ended up in the icon presidential library:

The memo – called, simply enough, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News” – is included in a 318-page cache of documents detailing [Roger] Ailes’ work for both the Nixon and George H.W. Bush administrations that we obtained from the Nixon and Bush presidential libraries. Through his firms REA Productions and Ailes Communications, Inc., Ailes served as paid consultant to both presidents in the 1970s and 1990s, offering detailed and shrewd advice ranging from what ties to wear to how to keep the pressure up on Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf War.

The memo explains why television was the way to go:

Today television news is watched more often than people read newspapers, than people listen to the radio, than people read or gather any other form of communication. The reason: People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/memo-from-1970-a-plan-for-putting-the-gop-on-tv-news/

They knew that if they owned the media, they could control what people thought, and no republican president would ever have to resign due to public outcry again.

Luckily, he was held back by federal regulations, until a good ole capitalist from Arkansas got elected and decided anyone should be able to own media in America:

The stated intention of the law was to "let anyone enter any communications business – to let any communications business compete in any market against any other."[5] In practice, it gave way to one of the largest consolidations of the telecommunications sector in history - as such, it is often described as an attempt to deregulate the American broadcasting and telecommunications markets due to technological convergence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

After that it was gloves off and the billionaires gobbled up every aspect of the "news" industry and maintain almost exclusive control over what a majority of Americans hear.

Trump is posting on social media that Biden's administration was just giving SNAP benefits away. His idiot supporters are gonna believe it.

Yeah, but most of the hardcore maga base is going to die within 10 years, but waaaayyyy sooner if Trump keeps cutting snap and Medicaid. Then you'll be left with the few capable white supremacist MAGAts, and a lot of out of shape brainwashed dipshits who will either scatter into the shadows or fall in line and shut the fuck up real quick

I truly think that a good amount of these people could be personally executed by Trump shooting them in the chest, and while Trump says "I know what you are and I hate you" they would lay there dying and say "Oh it's okay, I know you didn't mean that. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I still support what you're doing overall." or possibly even "I guess I do deserve to die if you say so".

Now I will say the majority of even the maga team is not this nuts. But some definitely are. Many humans have unfortunately had the privilege to never interact with the kind of person who will truly never change their mind. I've known one or two, and it's a really mind-expanding experience, almost like you're meeting an extraterrestrial. It's hard for people who haven't seen them to believe 👽 lol

Was the order even appealed or did he just tell them to pound sand?