You might be in a cult.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by exGOPer, Dec 11, 2020.

  1. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    When McCain is an enemy..

    When Mattis is the "deep state"..

    When every Republican Congress member who speaks against Trump is a RINO...

    When Fox News becomes fake news...

    When every living former GOP President didn't support Trump's presidency..

    When Barr is suddenly some sort of operative against Trump..

    When you rail against the "Russia hoax," despite being started by a Republican, investigated by a Republican, and merits were confirmed by the GOP Senate Intel Committee..

    When the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court, complete with 3 of Trump's own picks, is suddenly full of traitorous individuals...

    When a reality TV show host with tens of thousands of documented lies, who is a lifelong manipulative conman and conspiracy theorist, is your last bastion of truth...

     
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  2. Overnight

    Overnight

    And when you find yourself listening to loons all day long.

     
  3. notagain

    notagain

    Victim of the Blue-Tail Fly
     
  4. You know you are in a cult when you vote for a dude who looks and acts like the guy from Jonestown:

    I think his name was Obama:

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  6. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Former GOP New Jersey Governor compares Trump supporters to the Jonestown doomsday cult, says they've 'drunk the Kool-Aid'
    https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-...ump-supporters-drunk-the-kool-aid-nyt-2020-12
    • Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman has criticized Republicans who have backed President Trump's bid to overturn the election.
    • "I keep comparing it somewhat to Jonestown," Whitman told The New York Times. "They've all drunk the Kool Aid. It just hasn't killed them yet."
    • The comments are some of the most scathing yet by a senior Republican about Trump's bid to overturn the election, and the refusal of the GOP to stand up to him.
    Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman has compared Republicans who support President Donald Trump's bid to overturn the election to members of the Jonestown doomsday cult.

    In comments to The New York Times in an article on Saturday, Whitman, a Republican and former member of President George W Bush's cabinet, was scathing about GOP support for Trump's attack on American democracy.

    "I keep comparing it somewhat to Jonestown," Whitman told the publication. "They've all drunk the Kool-Aid. It just hasn't killed them yet."

    Whitman was drawing parallels between Trump supporters and followers of cult leader Jim Jones, who in the late 1970s created a commune in Guyana, Latin America, dubbed "Jonestown." There, 900 members of the cult killed themselves in a mass suicide pact in 1978, drinking Kool-Aid laced with poison.

    Whitman, a moderate Republican, is a prominent GOP critic of Trump, and declared that she was backing Joe Biden for president in a speech to the DNC conference in August.

    The remarks highlight the divide between Republicans who have broken with America's democratic traditions to support Trump's election fraud claims, and a smaller group who have publicly accepted President-elect Joe Biden's victory and warned of the dangers of undermining America's democratic institutions.

    Trump has repeatedly alleged that the election was stolen from him due to widespread voter fraud but has not produced any convincing evidence to substantiate the allegation.

    The Trump campaign's bid to overturn the election result has been defeated in scores of court cases in swing states. On Friday, the latest longshot bid to overturn the election, launched by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, was dismissed by the Supreme Court.

    State election officials in Georgia have been singled out in attacks by Trump, after Biden flipping the state for the first time in decades. Governor Brian Kemp has refused to bow to pressure from Trump and block certifying the election results.

    The party's congressional leaders, including Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, have refused to speak out against Trump's bid to overturn the election.

    Among the signatories of the failed Supreme Court lawsuit were 103 congressional Republicans and 17 Republican state attorney generals.

    Some Republicans have warned that Trump's voter fraud claims will undermine faith in voting systems and could even imperil the party's future chances.

    "This undermines democracy," Gabriel Sterling, voting system implementation manager for Georgia, told NBC News last week. "We have got to get to a point where responsible people act responsibly."
     
  7. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    we'll see how many accompany Donnie when he's fleeing charges to Guyana.
     
  8. userque

    userque

    Don't put anything past those clowns. Some will follow dear leader anywhere:

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  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    You might be in a cult --- if you still show up at the cult leader's Christmas party after he urges others to jail you...

    Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Posts Photo From White House Christmas Party Days After Trump Tweeted He’d Be Jailed
    https://www.mediaite.com/news/georg...party-days-after-trump-tweeted-hed-be-jailed/

    After a lengthy campaign of abuse by President Donald Trump that included a promise to jail him, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp perplexed many by posting a photo of himself at a White House Christmas party Friday night.

    Kemp has been one of many targets in Trump’s campaign to whip up outrage among his supporters over his false claims of a stolen election, a campaign that Kemp says has resulted in death threats to his family. And earlier this week, Trump posted a tweet from pro-MAGA attorney Lin Wood that promised Kemp would soon be jailed.

    But none of that prevented Kemp and his daughter from showing up to the White House Christmas party Friday night, as evidenced by a pair of photos the governor posted on Twitter.

    “Lucy and I had a great time at the @whitehouse Christmas Party today. Merry Christmas, everyone!” Kemp wrote, with Christmas tree and flag emojis.



    The tweet drew shocked replies from several pro-Trump figures, including Trump campaign senior legal advisor Jenna Ellis.





    Kemp’s appearance came just hours after Trump fired off a series of tweets slamming the Georgia governor for not aiding the effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s resounding victory in the presidential election.
     
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN2A1275

    Exclusive: Dozens of former Bush officials leave Republican Party, calling it 'Trump cult'

    Dozens of Republicans in former President George W. Bush’s administration are leaving the party, dismayed by a failure of many elected Republicans to disown Donald Trump after his false claims of election fraud sparked a deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol last month.

    These officials, some who served in the highest echelons of the Bush administration, said they had hoped that a Trump defeat would lead party leaders to move on from the former president and denounce his baseless claims that the November presidential election was stolen.

    But with most Republican lawmakers sticking to Trump, these officials say they no longer recognize the party they served. Some have ended their membership, others are letting it lapse while a few are newly registered as independents, according to a dozen former Bush officials who spoke with Reuters.

    “The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump,”
    said Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration.

    Kristopher Purcell, who worked in the Bush White House’s communications office for six years, said roughly 60 to 70 former Bush officials have decided to leave the party or are cutting ties with it, from conversations he has been having. “The number is growing every day,” Purcell said.

    Their defection from the Republican Party after a lifetime of service for many is another clear sign of how a growing intraparty conflict over Trump and his legacy is fracturing it.
    2020 election fraud evidence:
     
    #10     Feb 1, 2021