President Trump

[Kristatos]

At least their old man with cognitive impairments is stepping down at the election, while Trump's own cognitive decline is becoming more and more apparent, with every question he's asked being answered with slurred, rambling speeches about sharks and magnets and Hannibal Lecter.

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[Pluto007]

At least their old man with cognitive impairments is stepping down at the election, while Trump's own cognitive decline is becoming more and more apparent, with every question he's asked being answered with slurred, rambling speeches about sharks and magnets and Hannibal Lecter.

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If we're being honest, the Dems were happy to run Biden back, and continue their lies about his mental health, until they witnessed the disasterous debate.

In the end, they forced him out. He didn't willing go.

And what's even more sick is the fact that the powers that be won't allow their dementia patient to run again, but they don't pull him from Office, and continue let him playing leader of the free world?

What is this?

And it begs the question: who the hell is running the United States, and who has been for the past four years?

[bjmdds]

Trump does not have dementia. He talks before he thinks sometimes. He can be interviewed for hours, unlike ANY Democrat out there. The Democrats have only 1 candidate for 2028 and that being Pennsylvaia Governor Shapiro, and he is nothing special. The Republicans have 10 candidates who could be an excellent President. The Democrat party is DONE in policy and that is why OH-bama ordered Biden to allow millions of illegals to flood the borders so they would have more voting power in a decade! ------and, MORE LIES from the laughing hyena KA-MA-LA-Di-Dah:

"Now, I know Democrats want to reinvent history and turn my Dad into any illusion you guys need him to be depending on the political moment you need to bastardize his memory for… But please don’t make me start sharing what I remember him ACTUALLY saying about Kamala Harris," Meghan McCain wrote.

"And consider this my final warning shot, I will start spilling tea."

On Saturday, McCain called her critics "lunatics" in response to the backlash.

"A lot of really triggered Democrats in my timeline who claim they know more about my dad than well.... his daughter," she wrote. "Get a grip on reality, you lunatics."

[Kristatos]

It's not unusual for politicians to announce that they won't be standing for re-election, without resigning immediately. And Trump's cognitive decline is obvious to anyone except his most devoted cultists. Yes, he can talk and talk, but he can't express a coherent thought, or stay on topic. Why do you think he doesn't want any more debates? My mum has Alzheimer's, and she talks a lot too, but it's just babbling. Similar to Trump, but she doesn't slur her words the way he does.

[Pluto007]

It's not unusual for politicians to announce that they won't be standing for re-election, without resigning immediately. And Trump's cognitive decline is obvious to anyone except his most devoted cultists. Yes, he can talk and talk, but he can't express a coherent thought, or stay on topic. Why do you think he doesn't want any more debates? My mum has Alzheimer's, and she talks a lot too, but it's just babbling. Similar to Trump, but she doesn't slur her words the way he does.

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I think it’s sad all the way through, Kristatos.

I’m not a fan of Trump at all. But I fear the Dems are the slightly more sicker of the two, very ill parties.

(By the way, I’m sorry to hear this about your mother)

The fact is, those without a brain, or they were just blind because of tribalism, knew that Biden was sick four years ago.

But he, and the party, were all-in on running him back before his debate.

Once they couldn’t “hide” his illness (remember all those news clips of reporters and politicians saying the same party line: he (Biden) is as sharp as a tack?), they pushed a woman who won no delegates when she ran for President and who was the border czar that quadrupled the amount of undocumented into the country within a year of Trump leaving office.

As far as m concerned, this is the theatre of evil. One party, though, seems to be on the side of forever wars (that’s the party Dick Cheney is now supporting), and one is running a president that didn’t start any new wars when he was president.

I’ll go with that guy this time.

The Dems are lost in sickness. They’re no different than the O’Connells and Lindsay Grahams on the other side.

And when that war criminal Cheney is supporting your person, something is very, very wrong. Cheney is far more dangerous than Trump. He’s the architect of the 20 year wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (where he and his company made billions). And, apart from Harris’s lies about troops being stationed in foreign countries, we still have a whole whack of soldiers in harms way in Iraq.

Both parties are sick and twisted and evil. One is just slightly, but obviously, more sick than the other.

[Kristatos]

I kind of agree. If I was American, I would vote for a third party or independent candidate, rather than for either of the uniparty candidates. With Trump (and the people around him), it's not war that worries me, it's his admiration for autocrats like Putin and Orban, and the Project 2025 plan to remake America in their image.

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[Pluto007]

I kind of agree. If I was American, I would vote for a third party or independent candidate, rather than for either of the uniparty candidates. With Trump (and the people around him), it's not war that worries me, it's his admiration for autocrats like Putin and Orban, and the Project 2025 plan to remake America in their image.

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This is a good plan, voting for a third option, but it really depends on which state you live, and how close the election will be.

In California, for example, it's pretty much a blue state, and one that gives the luxury of seeking an alternative to vote for.

But that isn't a luxury the battleground states have.

Both parties need to be burned to the ground. And then rebuilt to represent what the Founding Fathers designed, especially that part about separating church and state (the country is less and less religious with each decade, with approximately 65% of people believing in a faith, but in Congress, 95% of Republicans identify as religious, and 78% of the Dems say the same).

Freedom of religion is personal, but it should be driven out of politics as it's the first line in the sand that defines tribalism. Then the lines just grow thicker and thicker.

And we must ask ourselves how public service people go into politics, only to exit as multimillionaires. This is a problem. A big problem.

It's sad. These people don't serve us, and the democratic Republic is something nice to say exists, but it doesn't, not really, not by a long shot. Not when tax payer money is forced from your hand and it goes not to fix up broken cities that are war zones (Chicago, Detroit), or run by wild west lawlessness (swaths of Appalachia), not to education, nor proper healthcare, but it goes into the industrial war complex and fighting a war by proxy in Ukraine and the Middle East. We have millions struggling to put food on the table, and keep a roof over our head, but the powers that be make war for profit, and keep taking taxpayer money to supply the demand of the blood industry.

It's sick.

[bjmdds]

It's not unusual for politicians to announce that they won't be standing for re-election, without resigning immediately. And Trump's cognitive decline is obvious to anyone except his most devoted cultists. Yes, he can talk and talk, but he can't express a coherent thought, or stay on topic. Why do you think he doesn't want any more debates? My mum has Alzheimer's, and she talks a lot too, but it's just babbling. Similar to Trump, but she doesn't slur her words the way he does.

More debates? On CNN, the Certainly Not News network, or CBS, the Complete Bull-S--T network? Why would he go to another BIASED debate with liberal moderators and there is NO way the shmuck Harris, who is as dumb as nails, would ever go on Fox! I suggest you watch one on one interviews with Trump in a town hall type setting and see if he can speak to your approval. CULTIST terminology again? You use that BS liberal word all the time and you are NO different than the left-wingers, as you ALL regurgitate the same BS talking points over and over and over again. Policy vs. style, and Trump wins the policy debate!

[Kristatos]

The Founding Fathers never envisaged parties in the first place. George Washington didn't belong to any party. Parties are basically companies, more interested in preserving their own power than in serving the people. How many times have Republicans and Democrats conspired to keep third parties off the ballot?

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[bjmdds]

I hate BOTH parties! Trump's polices are what the new Republican party is becoming. Dick Cheney and the Bushes and Mcconnell can rot in hell! I wish a THIRD party did exist that was actually able to win.

[Pluto007]

The Founding Fathers never envisaged parties in the first place. George Washington didn't belong to any party. Parties are basically companies, more interested in preserving their own power than in serving the people. How many times have Republicans and Democrats conspired to keep third parties off the ballot?

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They also kneecap ppl in their own party: goodbye Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard. They couldn’t have fresh voices that weren’t in the back pockets of big pharma or the banks or the industrial war complex. Nope. They needed and wanted their usual soldiers in place: Hillary and Biden.

I hate BOTH parties! Trump's polices are what the new Republican party is becoming. Dick Cheney and the Bushes and Mcconnell can rot in hell! I wish a THIRD party did exist that was actually able to win.

Agreed. I wish this too.

And all the war criminals on both sides can sit at the table in Hell. Obama and his boy Biden ramped everything Cheney/Bush put into place. In the end, apart from arguing the nuance of how much should be spent on health, these two parties live and die by the same playbook: big pharma and war. Period.

They want us to believe the illusion we’re free, but we have no say on grand issues. They take our money and put it into war and pharma and bailing out banks, while they party it up in Washington while America teeters.

Julian Assange, brave whistleblower, published the emails of Citibank to president-elect Obama to tell him who his cabinet members will be.

And who was Obama’s cabinet? Every single name on the list Citibank mentioned…

[Kristatos]

The Cult Education Institute has a list of ten warning signs of a cult:

1. Absolute authoritarianism without accountability
2. Zero tolerance for criticism or questions
3. Lack of meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget
4. Unreasonable fears about the outside world that often involve evil conspiracies and persecutions
5. A belief that former followers are always wrong for leaving and there is never a legitimate reason for anyone else to leave
6. Abuse of members
7. Records, books, articles, or programs documenting the abuses of the leader or group
8. Followers feeling they are never able to be “good enough”
9. A belief that the leader is right at all times
10. A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation

I don't believe all of these apply to Trumpism (I don't think 6-8 do), but enough of them do for me to apply the term with some confidence.

[Pluto007]

Although I wouldn’t disagree that this applies to the Trump and his base, but I’d add this is the same on the Dems side.

Both sides have created a religion and their diehard followers are like religious zealots or cult followers.

I see no difference between the Trumpers who cover eyes, ears and mouths and will blindly follow their messiah off a cliff, to those on the Dems side who do the exact same thing.

It’s tribalism and watching the division and anger and each side pointing fingers at the other, is nauseating.

The diehards are all zealots. It doesn’t just belong to one side.

[bjmdds]

Pluto, Kris has a fascination with hating Trump. He should post on a former poster here ALE's twitter page as she went off the deeeeeeepest end imaginable when Trump won in 2016. Who wrote those 10 commandments by the way above, some so-called liberal historian who majored in social studies at an Ivy league school? NONE of the above will be the reason that Trump can win in 3 weeks. It will be a belief and a desire for the POLICIES that will follow to rescue the country from Democrats that have become an insane party that runs away from their REAL beliefs and PRETENDS to be centrists every 4 years.

[bjmdds]

I looked it up so Rick Alan Ross is your gospel on a cult? What?! ---After high school, Ross worked for two years at a finance company and at a bank. In his twenties, during a period of unemployment, he got into legal trouble. In 1974, he was charged, along with a friend, for the attempted burglary of a model home. He pleaded guilty to trespassing and was sentenced to probation. In 1975, he was charged with grand theft, again with a friend, for embezzling over $50,000 worth of jewelry from a shop where the friend worked. All the stolen items were returned to the store; he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to four more years of probation, which was terminated early. While he was on probation, he worked for a cousin's car salvage business. During an interview with the New York Daily News in 2004, Ross said, "I was young and foolish and made mistakes that I deeply regret. I did whatever the court required, completed my probation in 1979, and the guilty verdicts were vacated in 1983. I have gone on with my life and never again got in that kind of trouble."-----this is your frame of reference? My laughing horseys below have more credibility than Ross!

[Kristatos]

Although I wouldn’t disagree that this applies to the Trump and his base, but I’d add this is the same on the Dems side.

Both sides have created a religion and their diehard followers are like religious zealots or cult followers.

I see no difference between the Trumpers who cover eyes, ears and mouths and will blindly follow their messiah off a cliff, to those on the Dems side who do the exact same thing.

It’s tribalism and watching the division and anger and each side pointing fingers at the other, is nauseating.

The diehards are all zealots. It doesn’t just belong to one side.

Tribalism exists on both sides, but I don't think the Dems veer as far into personality cult territory. They maneuvered to get rid of Biden when it was clear that he was not up to the job, whereas nobody in the Republican party will even admit that Trump has lost more marbles than the Parthenon.

[bjmdds]

https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1845884504302305629

[bjmdds]

The TRUE cult members are those who have Trump Derangement Syndrome. They all march in step with the exact same words over and over again and cannot sleep at nights knowing Trump exists. These people need help before they pull a mass suicide if Trump wins.........TDS is a notion that the everyday activities of President Trump trigger some people into distorted opinions, extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard Goldberg gives supposed behavioral examples of TDS among Trump’s political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy dogs." Political commentator Justin Raimondo focuses on opinions, language and cognition, writing in the LA Times that "sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting of hyperbole [leading to] a constant state of hysteria… the afflicted lose touch with reality." Such forms of highly emotional reaction could be something akin to the fainting and screaming characterizing American Beatlemania in the 1960s. Unlike the Beatles, however, the extreme emotional reaction alleged to characterize TDS is not based on adoration and admiration, but on fear and loathing.

[Kristatos]

The TRUE cult members are those who have Trump Derangement Syndrome. They all march in step with the exact same words over and over again and cannot sleep at nights knowing Trump exists. These people need help before they pull a mass suicide if Trump wins.........TDS is a notion that the everyday activities of President Trump trigger some people into distorted opinions, extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard Goldberg gives supposed behavioral examples of TDS among Trump’s political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy dogs." Political commentator Justin Raimondo focuses on opinions, language and cognition, writing in the LA Times that "sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting of hyperbole [leading to] a constant state of hysteria… the afflicted lose touch with reality." Such forms of highly emotional reaction could be something akin to the fainting and screaming characterizing American Beatlemania in the 1960s. Unlike the Beatles, however, the extreme emotional reaction alleged to characterize TDS is not based on adoration and admiration, but on fear and loathing.

It's common for totalitarian regimes to paint their opponents as mentally ill, but I'm sorry. When your guy spends nearly 40 minutes at a campaign rally pretending to conduct the orchestra for the piped music, and your reaction is "masterful gambit, sir", you're in a cult.

As for his policies, all I'll say is that I disagree with them, and leave it there. That discussion would just keep going round and round in circles.

[bjmdds]

Of course you hate his policies, being a socialist. That is no surprise. The CULT is YOU and your adoption of the unhealthy and abnormal obseession with a person you cannot let go of. Good luck living like that. I hated Oh-bama with a passion but it did not affect my life at all in the unhealthy manner TDS has infected your psyche and the minions of followers like yourself.