You're confused because you didn't see us flock to his rallies and cheer his smackdowns

[Swede]

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We don't have matching hats, or "No More Malarkey" flags waving from the backs of our trucks. Do you know why? Because Biden isn't our tribal warlord.


A rant worth a million parlers. On edit, thank you DUer, DAngelo136 for the inof. This guys name is Matthew Cooke.

Link to tweet

[msfiddlestix]

1. Brilliantly Nailed It down to the core.

K/R thank you for sharing.

[SweepPicker]

2. This dude

is on point!

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. And, we aren't brainwashed cultists.

[Escurumbele]

45. Is that a question or a statement?

But there is a way to find out.

If someone took their ballot and chose every Democrat without doing their due diligence, then maybe they are brainwashed.

Where I voted there was one local republican who had already been on the job and she had done a great job, on the other hand the Democratic candidate did not show well, so I voted for that one Republican. It takes us a couple of weeks to go through every person on our sample ballot, it is always harder to get info on judges, but we manage to do it at some point, and we we have completed our research we know we will be voting for the right people.

Let us not forget that Theodore Roosevelt was a republican, and most of us would have voted for him.

[Ferrets are Cool]

51. Then call me brainwashed. But, I consider myself intelligent BECAUSE

I vote straight Democratic ticket. There are NO good repukes. NONE. Not a one. And don't even try to bring up Romney. He may have a conscious at time, but he is a MF'er who gleamed his riches on the backs of laying off American workers.

It is what it is. That was THEN, this is NOW. There isn't ONE current repug that can be compared to Roosevelt.

[marie999]

54. You are so wrong. You do not know everything you need to know about every Republican.

You don't know everything you need to know about every Democrat. Just because someone calls himself/herself a Democrat doesn't mean that they will be good for the country, state, county, or city they are elected to.

[ahoysrcsm]

77. Can... can I choose based on the endorsements by the local Democratic Party?

Also, can I rely on the endorsements by the local unions?

Sorry for the stutter, it bleeds through on typing as well.

[Ferrets are Cool]

79. At least I have the confidence that they (the Democrat) will NOT vote in concert with a corrupt

pResident. That is not always correct, but more so than not.

I will ALWAYS vote straight Democratic Party, just because the past has shown me that repukes are corrupt and do not vote in MY best interest.

And this is why we have elections. You vote your conscious and I will vote mine.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

78. Agreed. I don't gaf how good a job an R might do.

I also do my best not to do business with Rs, or use R doctors, lawyers, etc.

Anyone who can call themselves an R in this day and age is not deserving of any political power or trust.

The GOP supported & enabled Trump, who is a racist, misogynistic sociopath who probably has never even read the US Constitution and who, after countless other inexcusable acts, incited and cheered on the violent mob of insurrectionists who attacked our Capitol as part of an attempted coup.

[Ferrets are Cool]

80. I can't always isolate myself from repugs, but when I can, I do.

I am afraid their hate will rub off.

[Wednesdays]

56. Keep in mind that TR was hated by the rank-and-file Republicans

Hence, his forming his own political party in 1912. Among other things, TR's progressive views were an anathema to everything Republican bigwigs stood for.

When McKinley died after his assassination, a prominent GOP senator exclaimed, "Now that damned cowboy will be president!"

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. Excellent. Not sure anyone who needs to hear this is capable

of hearing it, but I wish this would be played for every American.



Don't we have some hackerz who can substitute this for, oh, say Tucker Carlson's or Sean Hannity's A block some night soon?

[unblock]

7. Exactly the problem. And if someone did hack this onto foxNews,

They would take it as all the proof they needed that antifa is real and taking over and omg....

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

18. Right. Everything, really, gets sucked into the black hole of

thier brainwashing. The first thing a cult tells you is that everyone else is lying to you.

They do need "reprogramming," but that's too much like conversion therapy, which we correctly reject.

It is far easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled.

[MerryBlooms]

5. R&K Thank you.

[Wounded Bear]

6. K&R...for truth...nt

[Rorey]

8. "Your nightmare...."

"Your nightmare of brainwashed radical anti-American movement trying to destroy the country was you." - says it all.

[onecaliberal]

9. K&R

All of it!

[DAngelo136]

10. His Name Is

Matthew Cooke. He's a documentarian. He is the writer-director of How to Make Money Selling Drugs, a documentary film which criticizes the war on drugs in the United States, and Survivors Guide to Prison, about the prison system.

Here's his website: https://www.matthewcooke.com/

[Swede]

12. Nice.

Book marking this guy.

[Escurumbele]

47. Thank you, good job finding him.

I will make a point to hear more of what he offers on his website.

[Mr.Bill]

58. He should be in Congress. n/t

[yardwork]

11. I think he covered every single point except the lizard people.

He did mention the Kraken. I'm following him on twitter now.

[PatrickforO]

30. You mean...lizard people aren't real?

[kentuck]

13. kick!

Right on!

[mdbl]

14. well stated!

[Lonestarblue]

15. That is excellent!

Most Trump supporters could listen to it and still not have a clue—too many big words for them. They are not the brightest bulbs.

[bearssoapbox]

72. You are so right.

Too many big words of more than 2 or 3 syllables and the vid is too long for the rethuglicon, Trumplethinskin's cultist attention span.

By the time he got to the second or third talking point they'd probably shoot the Satan in the teevee by shooting the "Satan in the teevee".

[cachukis]

16. Great Summation.

[denbot]

17. Yuppers!

K&R

[W T F]

19. Wow, nailed it to the "T"

[smirkymonkey]

20. K&R

[Johnny2X2X]

21. Every point was exact truth

Start it and there’s no way you don’t listen to the whole thing.

[keithbvadu2]

22. Outstanding!

[NightWatcher]

23. "It is you"

[albacore]

24. One problem..

This piece is great...it puts it all together in one place. Best summation to date.
The problem is that it's preaching to the choir... the choir, of course, being people whose attention span is longer than a gnat's.
Anybody who has been following what has happened in this country since trump's campaign began in 2015 knows all this.
And the sad idiots who NEED to watch this won't. Because they can't focus that long.
trump's rallies were long, but they were comprised of dog-whistle-bumper-sticker-phrases that turned the crowd on, folded into long paragraphs that the faithful used to rest their brains.
You know the internet abbreviation tl;dr..? Too Long Didn't Read?
Well, the trumpers would say tl;cw. Too Long Couldn't Watch.

[infullview]

26. I really think you have a handle on this.

Like your theory. Sort of gives us the gnats-eye-view of things

[JohnnyRingo]

42. Correct. Too many Americans are unable to...

...focus on anything longer than a bumper sticker slogan, much like Trump himself.

Trump is a bullshit artist who was able to string a number of them together in a way that held their attention: Lock her up, USA USA USA, Make America Great Again, drain the swamp, build the wall, we are brainwashed morans! The list goes on & on.

[MyMission]

46. I thought the same

If this was broken down to several clips, cult 45 members might listen and hear.

It's very good, comprehensive, but the audience he needs to reach doesn't have the attention span to listen or follow along for the entire video. The excellent points get smeared.
Like babies, it needs to be spoon-fed in smaller doses.

I loved his closing thought. Take that point (the nightmare is you!) and craft a short message focusing on that and cult mentality.

As I write this I think that should be the focus going forward. Call them out, label them as cult 45, cult members, brainwashed and manipulated, misguided. Highlight some dangerous cults we've seen before, draw comparisons, offer deprogramming!

[kurtcagle]

52. Hearing the truth hurts

I suspect that most of those who need to hear this won't get more than a few seconds into it before stopping. When you have been brainwashed into thinking that you are good and special, hearing that you're not is too much cognitive dissonance.

[BumRushDaShow]

66. This was not for consumption by the brainwashed deplorables nor for our "choir"

it was for the "intellectual/business/neocon/fiscal conservative" Raygun wing of the GOP who sat back and tacitly allowed their party to be overtaken by the loons for expediency. Their sidelines quiescence made them complicit to the events at the Capitol.

The brainwashed will always be "followers" with short attention spans, and they found their "leader". The rest of them have yet to find a "leader" to rally around to take their party back and that will be a problem for them moving forward, as they are now forever branded as cowards stunned into silence, while their party was set adrift by mindless CT amplified by echo-chamber pseudo-media personalities.

But in order to break free of the rot they fed, as a first step, they need to refocus by ceasing the waste of time of joining in the spouting of cherry-picked buzz words and whataboutisms formulated by their radicalized "base" as a way to "me too" use against Democrats for "street cred", while privately bemoaning the increasing extremism that has all but consumed their party.

And more importantly, they need to stop ignoring facts and reality and find ways to put their demon genie back in the bottle, and that includes ditching illegitimate and nefarious chaos instigators like Bannon and Gingrich. Otherwise they eliminate any chance to reclaim the policy positions, sans the divisive "wedge issues", that they used to hold near and dear, the promotion of which might have allowed them to actually appear to be something that resembles more a "political party" than a foaming-at-the-mouth cult cabal.

Instead they chose a path of being "anti-Obama", rejecting anything and everything he tried to do including offers to implement reformulated versions of the very policies that they used to tout. And their rejections, "Because. Obama.", essentially sealed their fate by eventually hollowing out their party until it was left with nothing but a core of racist, sexist, homophobic, and anti-science RW COS-players, participating in a game of "capture the flag" at a government facility near you.

If you don't stand for something then you'll fall for anything.

[littlemissmartypants]

69. Sloganeering is the gateway to propaganda. He stole that

effective tool straight from the authoritarian handbook.

❤ lmsp

...dog-whistle-bumper-sticker-phrases...

[infullview]

25. Great video, but I still don't understand how 75 million people can just throw away common sense.

[Paper Roses]

27. Inpressive. Thank you sir. Spot on! n/t

[ewagner]

28. This needs to be WIDELY distributed....

don't know much about the author/narrator but he's right on! He says what needs to be said in a single, coherent fashion...

[RobertDevereaux]

29. Masterful! Here's his Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/matthewcookeofficial

[PatSeg]

31. Outstanding!

Thanks for sharing.

[Hotler]

32. Well written but, too many big words and too long for shit apple repugs to comprehend.

When you're home schooled, your teacher has to have more than a 6th grade education.

[The Wizard]

33. We are confronted with a toxic suicidal death cult

that is willing to die for a cheesy, second hand, reality TV performance artist.

[Susan Calvin]

40. That's it exactly.

Isn't Andy Griffith one fine actor? If you haven't seen him as a bad guy you haven't lived.

[justgamma]

34. You're confused because you didn't see us flock to his rallies and cheer his smackdowns

Loved this but he missed a huge point. We didn't have huge rallies because our side cares about people. We were trying to keep people from dying. The other side just don't give a darn.

[robbob]

38. He did mention (in passing) as one of the reasons for the low key Biden campaign

that we were in the middle of a global pandemic.

[Mr.Bill]

60. The big danger in the future will be

The people who never wore a mask, never took any precautions and never worried about the virus, yet never got sick and never cared about those who did. They will either think they are a super race or the whole pandemic was indeed a hoax. There will be millions of them, and they will be entitled assholes for the rest of their lives.

[Fla Dem]

35. Wonderful oration of the past 4 years and the Republican downfall. Unfortunately

the people that need to hear this won't.

[Hekate]

36. KnR

[BlueJac]

37. Awesome statement

[PennyK]

39. Amen!

I want to have his children!

[harumph]

41. To long for Trumpers.

Seriously, break it into 4 parts and drive home the points. These folks have a 10 second attention span (at most).

[NNadir]

43. It's devastating to hear truth spoken soberly and clearly, particularly the massive damage done...

...in 4 years.

[DownriverDem]

44. Lansing Michigan

I'm watching the protest in Lansing. Not many folks there so far.
https://www.wlns.com/news/live-protestors-expected-to-gather-at-michigan-capitol-today/

[silverweb]

48. Here's a new one he posted:

Link to tweet

[peggysue2]

49. Hear, Hear!

Effective, clear, no pussy-footing around.

This is indeed a wake up call.

to Matthew Cooke. Well said, well presented.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

50. RW on a bipartisan forum I used to participate in - they were always trying

to push the "democrats in disarray" narrative whenever two democrats - gasp, horrors! - disagreed about something. I would just laugh and point out that that's what normal, non-cultish behavior looks like.

I think RW culture in general tends to be lock-step and cultish and either-or in their thinking, while LW is more open and inclusive - everyone gets to have a say about everything, and anything - and display more nuanced shades of gray thinking.

We are hardwired this way to some extent - theres actual sociological studies that say this. It doesnt excuse cultish criminal behavior though. And there certainly are exceptions to the rule - plenty of rigid inflexible thinking on this very forum!

[beaglelover]

53. This was most excellent. Some billionaires should buy airtime on every network and cable station

and broadcast this several times a day in its entirety for a month or two.

[cp]

55. K&R !!!

Thank you.

[RussellCattle]

57. "That embodies all seven of the deadly sins, most of all pride." Got to love that comment....

....about the Trump years. Pride has always been my favorite of the seven deadly sins, because so many people see it as a good thing. Team pride, military pride, school pride, pride in one's accomplishments. These are all sold to us as good things, part of an overall picture of American pride. Sing it with me. "Proud to be an American".

[lunatica]

59. Now if he could just say all that in Trumpspeak.

Throw in a lot of adjectives like beautiful, bigly and fake, mispronounce the big words, and ridicule them and demand jail time for his enemies and speak in sound bites he might reach them.

[demtenjeep]

63. Perfect

well said

[LittleGirl]

64. Is he just preaching to the choir?

His message needs to be heard by those unwilling and unable to understand unless you slap them in the face with it! The truth, you know. Something they never hear.
We must stop the lies. 🛑

[liberal_mama]

65. Wow, that is great!

[meadowlander]

67. Quite keen to get a "No More Malarkey" flag now...

[BobTheSubgenius]

68. That was absolutely brilliant!

From the concept, to the compelling writing, to the recitation....right down to the demeanour, voice and look. Whoever Matthew Cooke is, he has a future in this kind of work, if he wants it...and isn't doing it already.

[AmyStrange]

70. Republicans ignore the truth, and the facts, because...

-

it gets in the way of their lies.
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[MustLoveBeagles]

71. A righteous rant

[Nitram]

73. Wow! 'Nuff said.

[Jay25]

74. Wow, that was wonderful.

[Larissa]

75. Wow, just wow

So very badly needed: an articulate, balanced, sane breakdown of the travesty in this country. A balm in Gilead. I will be listening to this again and again.

[Demovictory9]

76. I hear/see this logic for "how could Trump not have won".. see all the people at the rallies?