Any rational person who has been paying attention to the MAGA movement led by Donald Trump cannot help but recognize its similarities with cults from the past. He tolerates no dissension from his missionaries in politics and the press. His flock are glassy-eyed disciples who can see no wrong. And he employs the first rule of cults: Only Dear Leader will tell you the Truth. Everyone else is lying.
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The obvious parallels between cults and MAGA should strike fear into the hearts of Americans who value the democratic principles that have formed the foundation of this constitutional republic for 250 years. Trump’s emergence as a demagogic figure threatens to put an end to the freedoms that the American people have enjoyed, and replace them with servitude to the wannabe messiah.
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On Sunday morning, one of Trump’s most loyal ministers, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, was interviewed on NBC’s Meet the Press. And the sermon he delivered there was extraordinarily reverential and bursting with blind devotion. It was a display of unfettered fealty to his salmonesque savior. The exchange began with host Kristen Welker asking Johnson whether Trump should release his medical records – which Johnson said were “irrelevant” – but descended into flagrant lies and worshipful exaltation almost immediately.
Welker: Should Donald Trump release all of his medical records, Mr. Speaker?
Johnson: He has. He issued – he issued the records of his physicians. Kamala Harris issued her medical records as diversion because she’s desperate, because she’s sinking in the polls. Donald Trump’s health is on display. Everyone in America can see it. The man works nonstop. He never quits. He probably sleeps four hours a night. He doesn’t require as much sleep as the average person. He’s an unusual figure. And this is the strength that we need in a time like this. We’re in the most dangerous moment since World War II. You have to have strength. You have to have a steady hand. You have to have a commander-in-chief that our allies respect and our enemies fear. They do not fear Kamala Harris. They do fear Donald Trump. That’s what people are going to vote on.
Welker: Mr. Speaker, just be very clear, he hasn’t released all of his medical records. He released two letters. Should he release the results of the cognitive tests?
Johnson: It’s unnecessary. He’s on display every minute.
This is North Korea level worship of Dear Leader Trump. https://t.co/KUERoK96lB
— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) October 13, 2024
There’s a lot of blatant BS to unpack here. Let’s start with Johnson’s barefaced lie that Trump has released his medical records. He has not. Johnson was, however, correct that Kamala Harris did release hers. And not as a diversion (she is currently leading in most polls), but because every presidential candidate for decades – except for Trump – has done so.
The only thing Trump released was an outdated and letter with no details from last year describing a partial physical that did not include cognitive testing, and two letters from disgraced former doctor, Ronny Jackson, who claims that he treated Trump after his “ear death” experience in Pennsylvania. He did not perform a complete physical on Trump at that time. Jackson is currently unlicensed, and was demoted in retirement from the Navy due to misconduct involving drugs and alcohol.
Kamala Harris released results of her recent medical exam. It shows her in "excellent" health physically & mentally.
Trump responded by releasing old letters from his disgraced & unlicensed doctor, Ronny Jackson, and a report that is a year old with no neuropsychiatric results. https://t.co/0Vf8vbPsPk
— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) October 12, 2024
Johnson went on to assert that Trump’s medical records weren’t needed because his perfect health was evident and that “Everyone in America can see it.” That is hardly an alternative to a physical exam by a qualified professional. Trump could have numerous problems that are not visible to laymen watching him on TV, or measurable without laboratory tests. They could include any number of bio-deficiencies or abnormal growths. And certainly any mental defect would require closer scrutiny. Although there has been a great deal of that evident in Trump’s bizarre and incoherent ravings at his rallies and in recent interviews.
Bill Maher to Buck Sexton: "Trump's super power is that he's so fucking insane and that he's been such a inveterate liar about everything he just pulls out of his ass." pic.twitter.com/hUmKzSPOo5
— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) October 12, 2024
Johnson also lauded Trump’s alleged stamina. But boasting that he doesn’t sleep much is more a sign of depravation than fitness. Likewise, claims that America’s enemies “fear Donald Trump” are preposterous. Mostly they laugh at him. If there is any hint of fear it’s due to his mental instability, not his strength or intellect, both of which he is lacking. Which our enemies know and are adept at manipulating him.
Trump’s failure to release his medical records is certainly due to their having bad news in them. If they were positive he would have released them on live TV weeks ago. It’s the same reason he has refused to release his financial and tax records. He is afraid to let the American people see the truth.
Johnson knows all of this, but he is to deeply indoctrinated into the Trump cult to be honest about it. In the meantime, Democrats and other sane Americans need to stay focused on winning in November. It is more imperative now than ever.
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Why’s johnson STILL in the upright position?
Off topic maybe, but I asked Daily Kos why I couldn’t find News Corpse. They said they didn’t know why and wouldn’t tell me if they did, citing privacy issues. Grrrr.
That is all you will ever get from them. It was posted by News Corpse that he was given a two month suspension because of something that he called Trump. And just like all social media sites, they will not show him, or anyone else, what was said that was so offensive. I have been warned on many occasions, but could not see what it was that got me warned. They just warned me, and took my post down.
The amount of blatant sycophancy around him is horrifyingly astounding.
When he left hundreds of his worthless tubes stranded for hours in Coachella, his rubes actually blamed the DEMOCRATS for their actions to hurt MAGAMORONS.
Well… they didn’t say that last part, but it was worth adding for TRUTH. It was 100% Trump’s fault that he left his followers stranded, but they still will NEVER blame him for his own actions, even when it hurts them.
The Q/Maga losers have a saying, “Where we go ONE, we go ALL!” G-d willing, with their eyes open, their biblical blasphemy ~ and raw milk, ivermectin (a parasite killer that isn’t working well enough on OUR behalf… yet) and anti-vaccine stance ~ will grant them this wish.
I no longer feel ANY compassion whatsoever for ANY Trump supporter. Just like I don’t have compassion for Nazis, the KKK, HAMAS, Taliban, et al or any other terrorist group.
Johnson is a devil worshipper. They all are.
P.S. I adore NEWSCORPSE! Much better than Daily KOS, who has leanings against certain liberal groups that I don’t feel are truly liberal. Or even kind.
I’m awaiting news that the busses didn’t show up to collect the rubes in Coachella because Trump stiffed the company, like he stiffs everyone who does work for him. Cities, town and venues all over the country won’t host his hate rallies because he still owes big money on previous events. Trump’s amazingly democratic in that respect: he’ll cheat anyone and everyone.
Spell check is so irritating. I said, “RUBES” — not “tubes”! Duh!!!
Speaker Johnson–where should I begin. . .
Despite his claim of being ‘christian’, he lies repeatedly and with some strange inner assuredness that no-one will ever dare to call him on those lies to his face.
He is blatantly partisan in every action he takes, in spite of owing his continued existence as Speaker to the Democratic members of Congress. I believe he even insulted them when they voted to keep him as Speaker, which I understand, he has a deep hatred of anything he doesn’t personally approve of. Like he very vocally approves of openly fascistic behavior.
He should remember, like all of them in Congress should, that every single thing Donald Trump has touched, except for the American Government, which is still teetering, has crashed and burned. His incompetence is historic, available to any, at this time, who want to peruse it.
Don’t bet on any proof of what Donald said or did surviving another term as ‘president’, because most of it won’t survive the next six years of Emperor Donald’s reign. Sadly, neither will America, but he will leave an indelible mark on history–as the only person who ever actually tried nuclear blackmail, by nuking four capitol cities on the same afternoon, then giving their neighbors the same ultimatum each of those cities had gotten. . .
But I digress. ‘Speaker’ Johnson knows exactly how insane, exactly how criminally intent, and exactly how utterly uncaring of any Human life not his own Donald Trump actually is, and still said what he did in the situation mentioned above. He has gone beyond lies and into treason at this point, and I say ‘treason’ because ‘Speaker’ Johnson is giving aid and comfort to one of the greatest dangers to America that has emerged in decades, and is doing so both willingly and enthusiastically! This is the exact definition of Treason, in America’s legal system, and I invite any of you who care to, look it up.
Once you view ‘Speaker’ Johnson as an enthusiastic traitor working to destabilize America, preferably permanently as far as several other ‘world leaders’ are concerned, his actions since becoming ‘Speaker’ suddenly make much more sense. Imagine the chaos that would ensue if you made Vladimir Putin the Speaker of the House, contrast that with what Johnson has mismanaged, and you might realize that if a few other prominent CongressCritters(tm pending) were in cahoots with Putin, it would explain the damaging stances they’ve taken as well. . .
So I view everything Johnson does through the lens that Donald Trump is a traitor to America, and Johnson supports everything he does, with glowing praise in spite of how much of a lie that is, so Johnson is a traitor as well. This explains otherwise inexplicable–to me at least– behaviors I have observed between the members of Congress, and the antics of the ‘leaders’ of some of the committees as well.
Please understand that this belief does not help me sleep at night, it infuriates me that no one else is framing the evidence of their own eyes this way. The media, whose job it is supposed to be to investigate things like this, are just as complicit in their silence as are the FBI, and the other DOJ executives who have evidence that Trump has, and is, colluding with Russia, including copies of his calls to Putin after he was kicked out of the White House. . .
Did that answer your question? Because I have better nightmares about our current situation to share than a fairly good-sized chunk of our Congress, both houses, who appear to be working directly for Putin while pulling down an American Government payroll.
Sleep tight, folks. Things are going to get interesting. . .
Henry Rinehart