PenguinBoss Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 13 minutes ago, katt_goddess said: No no no, we said we'd like to skip to what happens to dictators in the END. He'd be dead long before the regime fell. I don't want to have to settle for Trump Jr. 1 Quote
katt_goddess Posted 3 hours ago Posted 3 hours ago 1 minute ago, PenguinBoss said: He'd be dead long before the regime fell. I don't want to have to settle for Trump Jr. I feel like if you toss a bag of blow out in front of a crowd of his biggest bigshot idiots, they'll take each other out trying to get the biggest amount. 2 Quote
Jman Posted 3 hours ago Author Posted 3 hours ago This is a cult, not a regime. And cults don’t last without their Dear Leader. 1 1 Quote
naraku360 Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 20 minutes ago, Jman said: This is a cult, not a regime. And cults don’t last without their Dear Leader. Scientology. 1 Quote
discolé monade Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 1 hour ago, Jman said: And this is exactly why I think there will either be a midterm landslide or a lot of violence. Because something WILL break. something is going to break. i just hope i'm aligned correctly to help as many people as i can. 2 Quote
Jman Posted 2 hours ago Author Posted 2 hours ago (edited) 10 minutes ago, naraku360 said: Scientology. Surprisingly shrinking as an influential force in Hollywood, although unlike Trump, Hubbard did groom and de facto appoint his successor in David Miscavige, while Trump is too egotistical to establish a successor that his cult will accept. Makes me want to watch Going Clear again. Edited 2 hours ago by Jman 3 Quote
tsar4 Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago (edited) 1 hour ago, PenguinBoss said: Finally saying what the rest of us already knew he believed. Well, he does have the Guard cleaning up DC. There are videos of guys in fatigues with plastic bags picking up trash. Edited 2 hours ago by tsar4 3 Quote
discolé monade Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 10 minutes ago, tsar4 said: Well, he does have the Guard cleaning up DC. There are videos of guys in fatigues with plastic bags picking up trash. CO's seeing videos/pics/social media of guardsman just standing around. this came straight down the chain of command. MAKE THEM CLEAN AGAIN! lmao mess and maintenance week. lololol a garden party indeed. LOLOLOLOLOLOL 2 Quote
Jman Posted 2 hours ago Author Posted 2 hours ago 14 minutes ago, tsar4 said: Well, he does have the Guard cleaning up DC. There are videos of guys in fatigues with plastic bags picking up trash. To be fair this is probably the most productive thing they’ve done. I just don’t think you needed to activate the National Guard for a big clean up project when it would have been cheaper to hire more city workers. 1 1 Quote
tsar4 Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 11 minutes ago, discolé monade said: CO's seeing videos/pics/social media of guardsman just standing around. this came straight down the chain of command. MAKE THEM CLEAN AGAIN! lmao mess and maintenance week. lololol a garden party indeed. LOLOLOLOLOLOL "MAKE WORK DAY!" 1 Quote
PenguinBoss Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 1 hour ago, Jman said: This is a cult, not a regime. And cults don’t last without their Dear Leader. They just need the worst person in the room, and there's always one of 'em. 1 Quote
Jman Posted 2 hours ago Author Posted 2 hours ago 1 minute ago, PenguinBoss said: They just need the worst person in the room, and there's always one of 'em. They’re going to kill each other for the crown. Especially since Rupert won’t be around to play kingmaker either. 2 Quote
scoobdog Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago 16 minutes ago, PenguinBoss said: They just need the worst person in the room, and there's always one of 'em. Cults-of-personality are not like their historical Roman namesakes even if they’re derived from them (by way of Julius Caesar). Trump is an unusual amalgamation of personality, bigotry/hatred and incompetence, so the disjointed coalition he heads tends to be galvanized, directionless, and distinctly not unified. Jman is right that the coalition will dissolve as soon as he’s gone, but that does not mean the mechanism for the dissolution of our democratically cherished freedom, hyperpatisanship, will allow us to undo the damage readily. 1 Quote
rpgamer Posted 55 minutes ago Posted 55 minutes ago While I don't entirely disagree (largely out of no desire to really think about or predict the future..), I would at least add the consideration that the mechanisms and ideologies that put Trump in this position were all in place long before Trump was a factor. What the cult stands to lose the most of is media attention, and in effect, mass reach. But, as a whole, the cult leadership is still full to the brim with people in and adjacent to power enough to continue pushing their agenda, step by step. This doesn't end with Trump. It just goes back to being quieter/slower. More erosions while they wait and set up for the next big destruction. But, I mean, optimistically, if Fox News can be dismantled in the near future when the owner dies, maybe some of that effort can lose its effect.. Idk. I just sorta think Trump is still largely just a symptom of a country that has been fed and fueled on division, and that's not going to just stop and go away when the mouthpiece dies. But also a disclaimer that I know a lot fuckin less about a lot of this than most of you. And am also often a pessimist. And sometimes dumb as fuck. And sometimes doomer. So 1 Quote
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