• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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    10 hours ago

    Maga is a personality cult centered around an 80 year old man with obvious health issues.

    Everyone sees the writing in the wall, like Alexander’s generals after he drank himself to death, they’ve got to carve out their own fiefdoms from the corpse of his empire.

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      6 hours ago

      Maga is a personality cult centered around an 80 year old man with obvious health issues.

      Part of me really does wonder what all these asshole cult members and/or those vying to build their own little cult after he’s gone will do if he were to die in the WH while that stupid ballroom is still nothing but an AI-generated set of plans. What are they going to do with really egregiously out-of-touch and stupid things like Donvict’s ballroom?

      They seem to have zero platform, really. It’s just trying to own the libs, enrich Donvict, strip the country for parts, enshrine corporatism and coddle the already ridiculously rich.

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        They seem to have zero platform, really. It’s just trying to own the libs, enrich Donvict, strip the country for parts, enshrine corporatism and coddle the already ridiculously rich.

        Conservatives couldn’t give a fuck about policy or outcomes. It’s all vibes and emotions to them.

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          29 minutes ago

          Yep.

          The same people all butt mad about people kneeling while a song played and a piece of cloth was displayed AT A GAME (not sure why all that performative “patriotism” is included in a game, but here we are, I guess) are now studiously ignoring Donvict stalking right past a flag lying on the ground at the WH…or in a “special container” according to the Confederate apparatchiks at the WH, but either way, it violates the flag code, which these people pretend to give so many fucks about.

          Until it turns out in a plot twist, no, they don’t really give a fuck about the flag code at all, they are furious about others protesting black people being murdered by cop and pretend they aren’t really mad about that…“don’t bring politics into my sportsball that already has performative “patriotic” rituals inserted into it for some reason”.

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        6 hours ago

        The other comparison the Professional Left podcast makes - and it’s more apt than ever for the Confederates - is the notion of the Nazis burning their uniforms as they fled the battlefield and lost the war.

        These people are going to construct alt versions of the Republican Party, call it something else, most likely, but still run Republican Party candidates. Terms like “maga” and “America first” and “teabagger/tea party” are of course meaningless terms that can be made to stand for virtually anything.