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CelticPredator
Oct 11, 2013
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Avirosb posted:



I've been wondering why Trump won't shut up about Pocahontas.

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Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord
WAIT BIDEN CURSES?!

Burns
May 10, 2008

Yesterday i read the wikipedia entry for Qanon. Its a hell of a thing. They basically turned a conspiracy and made it a fundemental belief, like a religion which is the most troubling part. Trump is both prophet and messiah to these people. Thats a for real scary thing right there.

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Oct 12, 2009

Pornsident Donald Plump

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A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

Burns posted:

Yesterday i read the wikipedia entry for Qanon. Its a hell of a thing. They basically turned a conspiracy and made it a fundemental belief, like a religion which is the most troubling part. Trump is both prophet and messiah to these people. Thats a for real scary thing right there.

You know how normal people make mistakes and can acknowledge that? Or how you might have a bad day and it's just because sometimes poo poo goes wrong?

If you believe in Q it absolves you of any guilt.

That time you got drunk and crashed your car into a tree? Pedophiles spiked your beer so you'd be more open to Obama's plan to turn us all into gay socialists.

You're worried Trump might have something wrong with his brain because he started rambling about bowling balls? Nope, that's code that shows Trump is actually a super cop that's personally fighting against Killary's death bots that plan to create farms on Mars that'll raise cloned children to grind up into meat to feed to people, thereby indoctrinating the into the Democrat party and denying the a chance to go to Heaven.

Also JFK Jr is alive, Trump saved him, and he's going to appear (like Jesus Christ) and save us all from Obama.

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1306941843335188482%5C
lmao

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


One of the funnier Q things is that Q himself straight up said JFK Jr is dead. So even when it comes to what Q says explicitly and not coded they have to twist it into the beliefs they've all decided on.

Attitude Indicator
Apr 3, 2009

The evil china app hurt dear leaders fee-fees so now it must go lol

Rod Hoofhearted
Jun 18, 2000

I am a ghost




sarcastx posted:

Preach. I'm endlessly fascinated by the selective blindness of these fuckwits too; like, I had an argument with a guy who voted for Trump in 2016 (claims he's not a republican, just felt that was the correct choice at the time) where I pointed out to him that the vast majority of Americans overwhelmingly support the vast majority of left-leaning policies (some of which are adopted by the center-right Democratic party). He got all defensive and "WELL THAT'S PRESUMPTUOUS!" and I said - no, statistically, Americans are more in favor of policies proposed by Democrats than by Republicans - and in many cases, it's by a huge amount (used universal background checks for gun sales as an example).

But that's what really baffles me, like, the Republicans constantly working to "minmax" by voter disenfranchisement and the like, instead of, y'know, trying to get people to vote for them with policies. But I guess there's no constituency for providing tax cuts to billionaires so hurr GUNS AND GOD AND GRITS AND GOD AND GUNS AND NO BORTIONS AND NO GAYS

I always think about the 2014 Illinois Election for Governor. There were three left-leaning referendum items on the ballot:

Minimum wage increase - 63% yes
Birth control must be covered by health insurance plans - 63% yes
Increase taxes on millionaires - 60% yes

Republican Bruce Rauner - 50.3% :eng99:

Ballot referendums have become the most important way to get left-leaning legislation passed, especially marijuana legalization and voting rights stuff, because ~10% of the electorate supports leftish policies, but votes for Republicans. It’s insane because these Republicans don’t even PRETEND to have the same legislative goals and priorities as these voters!

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

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Attitude Indicator posted:

The evil china app hurt dear leaders fee-fees so now it must go lol

its worse than that - zuckerberg told him to get rid of it because they're all chinese spies.

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

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LabyaMynora posted:

I always think about the 2014 Illinois Election for Governor. There were three left-leaning referendum items on the ballot:

Minimum wage increase - 63% yes
Birth control must be covered by health insurance plans - 63% yes
Increase taxes on millionaires - 60% yes

Republican Bruce Rauner - 50.3% :eng99:

Ballot referendums have become the most important way to get left-leaning legislation passed, especially marijuana legalization and voting rights stuff, because ~10% of the electorate supports leftish policies, but votes for Republicans. It’s insane because these Republicans don’t even PRETEND to have the same legislative goals and priorities as these voters!

I'm a independent voter. I vote on the person, not the political party!

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Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


LabyaMynora posted:

I always think about the 2014 Illinois Election for Governor. There were three left-leaning referendum items on the ballot:

Minimum wage increase - 63% yes
Birth control must be covered by health insurance plans - 63% yes
Increase taxes on millionaires - 60% yes

Republican Bruce Rauner - 50.3% :eng99:

Ballot referendums have become the most important way to get left-leaning legislation passed, especially marijuana legalization and voting rights stuff, because ~10% of the electorate supports leftish policies, but votes for Republicans. It’s insane because these Republicans don’t even PRETEND to have the same legislative goals and priorities as these voters!

Florida overwhelmingly passed re-enfranchisement of felons but just barely voted in DeSantis (and Scott to defeat a Democrat) and so DeSantis got to work making it impossible for felons to get the vote back.

Missouri overwhelmingly voted down right-to-work and voted in Hawley (who supports right-to-work) to kick McCaskill out of the Senate.

madmatt112
Jul 11, 2016

Is that a cat in your pants, or are you just a lonely excuse for an adult?

Iakona posted:

Just shut the gently caress up you dumb lib. Biden is straight up absolute loving trash. This is the lol at trump thread. Not the I heart biden thread. Just gently caress off.

You can't normalize garbage anymore than those insane trumpers normalize his derided bullshit. They're both literal loving trash, and you dumb loving libs are making a serious case for me to not even bother voting.

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Nice meltdown champ

Waterbed Wendy
Jan 29, 2009

It's enough to make your sap boil

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin


@RealDonaldTrump: FAKE NEWS CNN now claiming "Donald Trump has turned in to a tree." Human bodies "Regularly" grow roots and leafs, and skin can also be Made of wood (Obviously!), this is nothing new and Nothing to Worry About. Perhaps it's time to ask Joe Hiden why he ISN'T a tree?

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
woke up this morning with a big hearty lol like Santa Claus

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G

Trump eating two invisible dicks.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

How many boxes of 'Antichrist' does Trump check off, do you reckon?
Darkening of the sun, earthquakes, fires, plagues, other natural disasters, weird dealings with the holy land, non-religious, boastful to an incredible fault, pro military, followers wear the mark on their foreheads (hats), their blind to him, he desecrated a church, he's ruled for 3.5 years, I mean he's really got a lot going for him, in terms of being the Antichrist, the best, probably. Thank you.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


Someone stop this monster.

Waterbed Wendy
Jan 29, 2009

i think he has a point, jose is british after all

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

Groovelord Neato posted:

One of the funnier Q things is that Q himself straight up said JFK Jr is dead. So even when it comes to what Q says explicitly and not coded they have to twist it into the beliefs they've all decided on.

That was probably the moment that defined how the Q movement was going to go, really. You can glom any conspiracy theory you want on to Q and make it work, no matter what Q or anyone else says. Like, Education For Libs was telling people there was interplanetary slavery and human trafficking and the Q people just nodded in agreement and boosted his voice. There was the guy who claimed to be Q in the future and had come back in time to start the Great Awakening and people believed him with no evidence. And then to prove he was Q he started posting threats to public figures, which would somehow show he was untouchable. He got arrested.

QAnon is the most insane thing to get anywhere near mainstream acceptance, and I don't think you could ever fully document all the branches and outgrowths attached to it.

Polio Vax Scene
Apr 5, 2009




we've done nothing and we're all exhausted!

Knight
Dec 23, 2000

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"Barron? You've got to piss on the kitchen table, Barron. Piss everywhere, Barron!"

Mr Ice Cream Glove
Apr 22, 2007

https://twitter.com/JoeMyGod/status/1306931252717473793?s=20

quote:

“Hitler used false science. Hitler used false science about race as a people, about Black people and about Jewish people. He tried to basically use that false science to lock down the Reichstag in Nazi power. That is essentially what’s happening in California, and even across the country.

“The false science of this virus is being used again as a club by the governor of California and others across the country to affect the political change they want to see.” – California megachurch pastor John MacArthur, speaking on the webcast of Christian author Eric Metaxas.

Burns
May 10, 2008

Lazyfire posted:

QAnon is the most insane thing to get anywhere near mainstream acceptance, and I don't think you could ever fully document all the branches and outgrowths attached to it.

The wikipedia article mentions that there are similarities with those apocalyptic cults that tend to string up most commonly is the US every few dacades. Then obviously theres the jews. Everything always comes back to the jews.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

Jose posted:

lol at getting tucker carlson to say socialism is good on fox

https://twitter.com/berniebromanny/status/1306788092347650050

Is this recent or is this from Mr. West's appearance in 2018?

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

Bag Flying At Noon, (2024)

Polio Vax Scene posted:

we've done nothing and we're all exhausted!

What are they gonna do anyway? Nothing is going to get past the Senate. I hate to say it but it pretty much is a waste of taxpayer money to do anything because the system is so broken that Mitch McConnell has the sole power to determine what even reaches the Senate floor. He just stopped doing his job unless it only benefits himself, Trump, or the GOP agenda, and nothing short of him either dying or getting voted out (lol) is going to change that.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


DarkSoulsTantrum posted:

What are they gonna do anyway? Nothing is going to get past the Senate. I hate to say it but it pretty much is a waste of taxpayer money to do anything because the system is so broken that Mitch McConnell has the sole power to determine what even reaches the Senate floor. He just stopped doing his job unless it only benefits himself, Trump, or the GOP agenda, and nothing short of him either dying or getting voted out (lol) is going to change that.

The House does oversight not the Senate. They're not passing laws when they get these guys in for questioning. But if you just let these guys get away with (illegally) ignoring subpoenas then what's the point of electing you into a majority in the first place.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

Bag Flying At Noon, (2024)

Groovelord Neato posted:

The House does oversight not the Senate. They're not passing laws when they get these guys in for questioning. But if you just let these guys get away with (illegally) ignoring subpoenas then what's the point of electing you into a majority in the first place.

Yeah that part is bullshit, and I don’t understand it But the House can’t pass laws on its own either.

DRINK ME
Jul 31, 2006
i cant fix avs like this because idk the bbcode - HTML IS BS MAN

Ellaybee posted:

I hope the laughing stops this year. My balls scream through space because of it. And



New thread friend. All balls must be returned to their upright and locked position before wing launched once again across the galaxy.

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

Burns posted:

The wikipedia article mentions that there are similarities with those apocalyptic cults that tend to string up most commonly is the US every few dacades. Then obviously theres the jews. Everything always comes back to the jews.

Qanon is a textbook example of what academics in religious studies call "apocalyptic literature" - a genre of religious text whose purpose is to reconcile two conflicting notions:

1. That God/the President is all-powerful and benevolent;

2. That the world under God/the President sucks hard.

The solution is simple - tell the believers that God/the President has a plan to fix everything. He won't do it now, for reasons. But he'll definitely do it later. Trust the plan.

Groovelord Neato
Dec 6, 2014


We live in a country with the only major political party that denies the reality of climate change so it's inevitable that QAnon becomes mainstream there.

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy
Trumpy has been busy these past few hours

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306801831620702208

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306801068186116096
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306801071797362691

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306800269578051585

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306799471741693952

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306797270445166594
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306797274647859200

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306796222137548807
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306796226013065216

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306794256237916160

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306951764382490626

Lazyfire
Feb 4, 2006

God saves. Satan Invests

Burns posted:

The wikipedia article mentions that there are similarities with those apocalyptic cults that tend to string up most commonly is the US every few dacades. Then obviously theres the jews. Everything always comes back to the jews.

I think there are two major differences between the End Times cults and the Q people.

Your typical Apocalyptical religious group has a definitive end date (I think at least one or two revised their numbers when the world didn't end on time) or event that signals the end. Q doesn't have an end date, they can just rail on and on about the Deep State whether Trump is president or not. Trump is going to end the Cabal, Trust The Plan, etc. By that logic, even Trump being voted out wouldn't stop the fight against the Cabal, it'll eventually be defeated...somehow.

The other feature it lacks is a concrete set of beliefs as handed down by a charismatic leader. Like I said before, there are a lot of tributaries feeding into the larger Qanon river, some that even directly contradict or have zero basis in anything Q has stated. There's no one single Qanon belief, it's all a la carte without any one figure determining the precise outline of what makes something part of the conspiracy theory.

old beast lunatic
Nov 3, 2004

by Hand Knit

Aliens exist and they write for the onion. If they were human they would have blown their brains out by now.

Gutter Phoenix
Jul 23, 2013

I preferred your last avatar, so I put it back. My apologies to the pedo who purchased your last one (it's always projection).

Shanghaied posted:

Qanon is a textbook example of what academics in religious studies call "apocalyptic literature" - a genre of religious text whose purpose is to reconcile two conflicting notions:

1. That God/the President is all-powerful and benevolent;

2. That the world under God/the President sucks hard.

The solution is simple - tell the believers that God/the President has a plan to fix everything. He won't do it now, for reasons. But he'll definitely do it later. Trust the plan.

Yeah, it really is fascinating to see a cult of personality emerge in real time. It's also terrifying.

BAGS FLY AT NOON
Apr 6, 2011

Bag Flying At Noon, (2024)
Wait, I thought it was Obama who made ISIS?

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Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

lmao

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