Keeping up with Trump

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I asked my transgender daughter to tell her militant trans leftist friends to stop killing our great American heroes.

Here's a chart that should be displayed on every billboard across the country:
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I also found it bewildering that MAGA people were irate about supposed anti-fascist engravings on Robinson's bullet casings. Interesting that considered a personal insult.
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The evidence so far says this was far right on far right violence. There is a kind of young man insanity where they want to prove their manhood by killing off their own tribe leader. Quite instinctive actually. Gorillas do it, baboons do it. Far right idiots do it. Well, looks to me like this shooter had his manhood threatened by his relationship with his male transitioning to female roommate. So, he went off the deep end proving how brave he could be. But the right will keep looking for how the leftist crazies got to him, when really they just need to look in a blankety blank mirror.
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And sorry governor Cox, but fascists have never been talked out of killing everyone who doesn’t look like them and some who do by talking politely to them. So, talk polite right up till they throw you into a gas chamber. Being polite never talked anyone out of hatred.

Trade the word Jew for Mexican, and the name of the latest guy assassinated, and Trump for your favorite dictator then you can see where we are on the road to a fascist takeover.
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Hagoth wrote: Sun Sep 14, 2025 8:08 pm I also found it bewildering that MAGA people were irate about supposed anti-fascist engravings on Robinson's bullet casings. Interesting that considered a personal insult.
It is worth nothing that the "anti-fascist" messages engraved on un-fired bullet casings has been found to be a hoax. The WSJ jumped the gun and then later retracted it.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charli ... F9cw%3D%3D
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It is worth nothing that the "anti-fascist" messages engraved on un-fired bullet casings has been found to be a hoax. The WSJ jumped the gun and then later retracted it.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/charli ... F9cw%3D%3D
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Good point. Isn't it fascinating though that people felt insulted by the idea of anti-facist messages? Also, the "transgender ideology" engraved on the casings was actually a threat to gay people.
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alas wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 9:10 am ...Well, looks to me like this shooter had his manhood threatened by his relationship with his male transitioning to female roommate. So, he went off the deep end proving how brave he could be. But the right will keep looking for how the leftist crazies got to him, when really they just need to look in a blankety blank mirror.
I can only imagine the incredible cognitive dissonance and internal turmoil when an alt-right Mormon man-child can't escape the reality that he is is falling in love with a trans person. What would be interesting would be if it turns out he had been rejected by a trans person. That would be ultimately humiliating to someone like that. I wonder if we'll ever know. I suspect that they will do everything possible to avoid talking about his right-wing upbringing and mindset. But I really feel sorry for that trans roommate, already getting blamed for what their idiot roommate did.

For what it's worth, Alex Jones' phone turned out to be full of transgender porn. There's a lot of complex weirdness going on in these guys. Someday we'll better recognize the strong association between homo/trans phobia and self-hating closeted LGBT people. There sure have been a lot of LGBT-hating preachers and politicians that turned out to be closeted themselves. These include some of the most aggressive politicians against gay rights.

Oh yeah, and there's also college to blame. A Fox News commentator said Robinson was left-radicalized because he attended college. What? The dude washed out after one semester at Utah State. I graduated from Utah State and I can tell you it is NOT a bastion of liberal ideals. It's a Mormon-dominated Utah agricultural college, for crying out loud. I came away from there more religiously indoctrinated and conservative than at any other time in my life.
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Hagoth wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:46 pm For what it's worth, Alex Jones' phone turned out to be full of transgender porn. There's a lot of complex weirdness going on in these guys. Someday we'll better recognize the strong association between homo/trans phobia and self-hating closeted LGBT people. There sure have been a lot of LGBT-hating preachers and politicians that turned out to be closeted themselves. These include some of the most aggressive politicians against gay rights.
You touched on this but my best guess is that they were raised in a society where being gay was universally condemned, those societal values got set as a part of their core beliefs during childhood, they hit puberty and start having gay feelings (as an example), then they started being very vocally against being gay as both a means of remaining safe within society and as a form of preaching to themselves more than anyone external to them.

They become more and more forceful in their condemnations because they're really fighting an aspect of their own nature that they may not like and because their nature isn't changing. They keep turning up the rhetoric in a vain effort to correct something they view as a flaw within themselves.

I dunno, I'm no psychologist. Didn't even stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Hagoth wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:46 pm Oh yeah, and there's also college to blame. A Fox News commentator said Robinson was left-radicalized because he attended college. What? The dude washed out after one semester at Utah State. I graduated from Utah State and I can tell you it is NOT a bastion of liberal ideals. It's a Mormon-dominated Utah agricultural college, for crying out loud. I came away from there more religiously indoctrinated and conservative than at any other time in my life.
It's got to fit into the narrative they're pushing. I don't know whether it's a calculated decision, a lie they tell people, or resulting from extreme cognitive dissonance, a lie they have to tell themselves.
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Hagoth wrote: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:46 pm Oh yeah, and there's also college to blame...
It's got to fit into the narrative they're pushing. I don't know whether it's a calculated decision, a lie they tell people, or resulting from extreme cognitive dissonance, a lie they have to tell themselves.
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Oh, and it turns out that his one semester was online. I would love to see what classes he took that turned him into a foaming-at-the-mouth leftist assassin.

I think he was just a twisted, whiney little b*tch who grew up in a society that taught him to respond to conflict with violence. Look at all of the pictures of his childhood with him and his parents waving around guns. It would be interesting to hear what Sunday dinner conversations were like in that family before we get to eager to blame freshman algebra or trans people or Joe Biden for his actions.
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And it turns out, he was not in a relationship with a trans roommate. The roommate is not trans, only kind of a pretty guy, and they were not in any kind of relationship. He was not believed to be in any romantic relationship. All made up bunk by the MAGA liars. They can make up imaginary crap faster than investigators can disprove it. So, of their claims, the shooter is not at all a leftist, but raised in a nice Republican Mormon family, and far from being radicalized, he was not even very interested in politics, according to his online activity and people who knew him. He appears to just be a normal insecure kid.

So, I suppose we all need to be more careful to find out where our information comes from because I got mine from supposedly reputable news sources, but apparently the “reputable” news sources got their information from right wing made up garbage. And it seems that some people lied to make the shooter look like he could be a leftist nut case.

I am starting to feel like I am living under a dictator because the disinformation is so common and it gets hard to sort out what is real. Even some sources I have trusted are starting to parrot propaganda.
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Mormons need an alternative to embracing fascism.
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1) We get a bad jobs report
2) Trump freaks out, fires person responsible for reporting job statistics
3) New jobs report looks great!
4) Hmm...
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Good thing no unfriendly nations or organizations are clever enough to notice that the 800 top US military leaders will be a at secret meeting that has an announced time and location!

ETA: Now Trump has announced that he will be there too. Maybe they should invite The Pope, Netanyahu, the top ten billionaires and media moguls, and seat them in an arrangement shaped like a giant target.
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It would be sad to be Donald Trump. He hates a lot of people. Imagine thinking that some people admire you for your ability to hate others, to promote hate. Imagine thinking that Christians(!!!)admire you because you promote hate.
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deacon blues wrote: Sat Nov 01, 2025 5:34 pm It would be sad to be Donald Trump. He hates a lot of people. Imagine thinking that some people admire you for your ability to hate others, to promote hate. Imagine thinking that Christians(!!!)admire you because you promote hate.
No one misunderstands or abuses Jesus more than Christians. In the words of our Beloved Leader: Sad.
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I need a good “how stupid can Trump supporters be” gripe session. And it needs to be where the guilty party can’t read it and realize that if I could never see her again, I would go for it. But then she would just deny that it could be her I am talking about because denial is her first name. I have heard it said that tRump supporters are “low information” voters. I kind of knew what they were talking about, but didn’t really comprehend how badly misinformed they really are. And how determined to continue being idiotic because the only truth comes from his Grand Orange Highness.

So, I thought the Covid stuff with her being stupid enough to believe the anti vaxers might have taught her to check her sources. Big big trip, money spent and everything and she had to cancel because no proof of vaccine and then tested positive. But no, over the last 5 years she has been sick three times now badly enough she had to be hospitalized, and actually BRAGGED about it almost killing her. But still minimizes how serious COVID can be, and still won’t get vaccinated. Still brags about refusing to wear face masks and is currently saying how measles is nothing to worry about and “nobody dies from that.”

Back a few years she said how she would never vote for him if he got convicted of anything. She has also in the past said that National Guard should never be used for things like riot control as they were against the Jan 6 “protestors.”

So, she recently said something about all politicians are crooks. I mentioned how Trump is the only one ever convicted of any crime. She argued with me that he has been charged but never convicted. I tried to correct her and she just refuses to even consider it. She also refuses to even know that tRump has sent National Guard into California or anywhere else. She just refuses to believe anything that might change her mind. She doesn’t pay any attention to actual news, because “it is just depressing”. I wanted to shake some sense into her idiotic head.

Several things that she used to claim were deal breakers for her, and she just refuses to accept reality. She does not want to know because then she would have to see that she is wrong.
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alas wrote: Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:58 am ...denial is her first name.
After that river in Africa?
alas wrote: Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:58 am Several things that she used to claim were deal breakers for her, and she just refuses to accept reality. She does not want to know because then she would have to see that she is wrong.
So, she's also a Mormon.
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Hagoth wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 5:52 pm
alas wrote: Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:58 am ...denial is her first name.
After that river in Africa?
alas wrote: Sat Nov 15, 2025 10:58 am Several things that she used to claim were deal breakers for her, and she just refuses to accept reality. She does not want to know because then she would have to see that she is wrong.
So, she's also a Mormon.
Raised that way and I suppose she still believes all Joseph’s lies. But swore off word of wisdom and attending because she got offended when someone pretended to like her, but was just doing her calling to get her through the temple….correction, knowing the church it was to get a perspective ELDER through the temple. Nobody honestly cares about the women, but they will fall all over themselves to get a perspective elder ordained and have a new warm male body they can put into callings. So, the week after they were finally sealed, this woman told her that she didn’t really like her, just had a goal and now that was accomplished she could find her own friends. So, she really hates people who pretend to be something they are not just to get what they want from you. But back to Trump, he’s not pretending at all. I am just soooo pissed at her stupidity. Willful ignorance. You can’t even call her belief that he is who he claims to be naive because she is dreadfully suspicious of everybody else in the world. And she claims she isn’t a follower of any political anything, yet is totally into the Trump cult.

It is the cult mentality that just boggles my mind. Perfectly nice, intelligent, kind, normal people, and yet they have this huge tolerance for total evil from their leader. They will not look at 13 believable accusations of rape, numerous accounts of fraud, obvious conspiring with Russia, trying to blackmail Ukraine, promoting an insurrection, bullying people, lying, lying, lying, lying, his good buddy the sex trafficker, convictions on 34 counts, a legal judgement of sexual assault, on and on and on and they tell themselves that this walking scandal is no worse than any other politician. Yet they can’t name one scandal from Obama, but he was still the most corrupt politician ever. It really is Trump derangement syndrome. His followers are totally delusional. So delusional they need to be locked up as totally out of touch with reality. Insane.
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