• DevCat@lemmy.world
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    In his Truth Social tirade, Mr Trump slammed the August 2022 at his Florida home and private club.

    “WOW! I just came out of the Biden Witch Hunt Trial in Manhattan, the ‘Icebox,’ and was shown Reports that Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, in their Illegal and UnConstitutional Raid of Mar-a-Lago, AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE.

    What’s he complaining about? Isn’t he the one who said the President can do no wrong?

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    So what days of the week is it that the FBI aren’t allowed to use deadly force?

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    It is strange he never gets flak for the amount of excuses he has for every situation. It is always someone or some group who is against him.

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      Compare how and why people cheer for sports teams. If you’re affiliated you will support any statement in favor of the team, while ignoring, suppressing, or attacking any statements to the contrary.

      You won’t debate a Trump troll out of supporting Trump, because it’s about belonging to a group and showing loyalty regardless of facts. Honestly I’m not surprised he’s doing so well, consider how techy most of us are and still get overwhelmed by what the Internet is shaping up to be. If you’re in your 50’s from a poor rural area, what chance have you got to stand against weaponized online propaganda?

      We are all like this, by the way. The inclination to blind affiliation with groups is the result of very deep, very old, very well studied cognitive structures and behaviors.

      Here’s some introductory reading that might fundamentally change how you perceive people’s participation in groups:

      https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/sociology/conformity
      Sherif’s autokinetic experiment - if enough people around you believe something, you’ll soon believe it too

      https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html
      A similar experiment performed by Solomon Asch

      https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html
      The Robber’s Cave experiment - arbitrarily divide a group into two, and watch the inevitable descent into inter-group conflict (hopeful note: if you make the groups try to overcome a common obstacle, fighting goes away)

      Leon Festinger’s Cognitive Dissonance Tests - This is an interesting one as well, here’s the idea:

      Experiment: Infiltrating a doomsday cult before, during, and after the date of their supposed apocalypse, Festinger and his fellow scientists noted that instead of losing faith, members doubled-down on their beliefs after the ‘end times’ came and went — eventually believing that their work saved the world.

      Conclusion: When we have two (or more) incompatible thoughts, we adjust them to minimize internal conflict, what Festinger called ‘cognitive dissonance’ — a term that explains the mind state of those unwilling to accept information that conflicts against their belief.

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      “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”

      What’s the one millionth time…

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    Also McDonald Trump

    “Please don’t be too nice,” he said to the audience in Long Island, New York.

    “When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” he said.

    “When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head],” Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "Like, ‘Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.’ I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’

    “I have to tell you, you know, the laws are so horrendously stacked against us, because for years and years, they’ve been made to protect the criminal. Totally made to protect the criminal. Not the officers. You do something wrong, you’re in more jeopardy than they are,” he added.

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    ‘Lashes out’ every time I see this shit I just imagine him throwing a tantrum like the petulant geriatric child he is.

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    Are you sure it wasn’t Justice Alito’s wife that put it there?

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      You mean make him more popular with the pro-russian anti-vax Qanut base? Absolutely.

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        If you think locking him up would make him more popular, you fundamentally don’t understand Republicans. They value power and hierarchy. They value doing things and getting away with them.

        They are not like Democrats and liberals who value ideas. There are no Republican martyrs. When Nixon resigned, Republicans stopped talking to him.

        Don’t you remember how quiet it was when Biden was elected? Trump couldn’t get on TV anymore. Maybe he would call in to a show or two, but he didn’t have any rallies and nobody interviewed him. When Republicans go to jail nobody supports them, because they value hierarchy.

        The whole point of hierarchy is that you’re untouchable.

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          Exactly. As soon as he’s out of sight he’s forgotten about. There won’t be any martyrdom if he goes to jail. They’ll just move on to whoever the angry talking heads stear them towards.

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    MAGA God, “Let those who do not raw dog pornstars while thier wife is at home taking care of their newborn in her own personal bedroom and store classified material in thier pesonal bedrooms where thier wife will not sleep with them, cast the first stone”

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    Honestly, the most shocking thing for me about that search was the fact they’ve never reported finding CSAM anywhere along with the classified docs. I seriously expected no less of him.

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    Any statement that begins with WOW!!! Is going to be followed with complete bullshit. Trump isn’t even trying to obscure his gaslighting anymore.