IT'S. A. FUCKING. CULT. Get the Kool-Aid ready.

[Nevilledog]

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Oh my goodness -- Trump's hypnotic rant about how the US is declining is now set to dramatic music. Weird and very cult-like.


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this is one of the most bizarre things I've seen at a Trump rally. All it is missing is passing around Kool-Aid right after.


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6:23 PM · Sep 17, 2022

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[Docreed2003]

2. W...T...F....

These people aren't just cult-like, this is a full blown cult! This is like some evangelical prayer meeting with the somber music and hands in the air and the sing song bs rant from the preacher who's about to pass the collection plate

[czarjak]

10. Sunday night alter-call. Believe me. Passing the plate was mid service.

[Docreed2003]

13. Oh I know from experiences in the Southern Baptist church

I was speaking more to the fact that Trump would be passing the plate at the end of the night to fleece this flock he has so enraptured

[czarjak]

19. But, they've prepaid already.

[SergeStorms]

36. You pay at the door....

then they pass the plates throughout the audience, and by the time they arrive home there will be an email waiting for another "emergency collection" (and don't forget to uncheck the pre-checked box or you'll be billed weekly for the cause).

Trump sees the grift finally winding down (after 7 years of fleecing the flock) and he has to grovel for every penny they have left.

[certainot]

38. they're just fucking dittoheads (trumpers, teabags)

if the city-dwelling pollsters would get a bloody brain they would realize the biggest common denominator is talk radio - 30 fucking unchallenged ignored years of it - totally ignored by those who it attacked, lied about, killed, maimed, impoverished, disenfranchised and discriminated against.

and preachers all over realized they could connect if they repeated what their flocks were listening to all week while driving working and doing chores

it's really fucking stupid to ignore talk radio- the biggest political mistake in history

[emulatorloo]

3. Your post-title is dead on.

[PlutosHeart]

4. This is a Vegas hypnotism act.

Not joking.

[Nevilledog]

7. Yup

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They had it at the last rally too. I'm pretty confident they're playing some kind of brainwashing - mind bending propaganda on the screens so people are increasingly radicalized w/traumatic imagery to keywords - like a live QAnon video.

Accelerationism. Time to indict.

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Oh my goodness -- Trump's hypnotic rant about how the US is declining is now set to dramatic music. Weird and very cult-like.
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6:45 PM · Sep 17, 2022

[tblue37]

25. The music is the QAnon WWG1WGA theme song!

[doc03]

34. Who are the two weird looking dudes with berets behind him? Behind them someone is fidgeting

around trying to remove his wrist band. There is the always present token black guy.

[Nevilledog]

35. Who know. Trump attracts the worst of the worst.

[PortTack]

5. Kool-Aid Kool-Aid tastes great!! Dating myself with this jingle..but it fits

[spanone]

6. Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after Lie after

This is fucking Banana Republic Crazy Fucking Shit.

[live love laugh]

9. ✔️

[spanone]

14. This guy is dangerously unhinged. Calling for death sentences.

[blm]

8. Read this thread on the book passed out free at his rallies.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217167845

[Warpy]

33. I usually skip right to the user recs on shit like this

and the godly are not happy.

It seems the "god's anointed" and "god works through flawed men" crowd of fundagelicals and the frauds who bafflegab them is a pretty small one and most likely getting smaller. Maybe they remember that bit about false prophets in the latter days, something that never quite seems to extend to the pompadoured fraud in the pulpit preaching hatred toward Democrats.

[magicarpet]

11. What is the Nazi Rally audience doing with,..

... all of them having their right arms held over their heads protruding up in the air ?

At first I thought it was tent revival-ish and I expected them to all burst out speaking and screaming in tongues - while caressing Vipers and Cobras.

Then upon a closer look I wonder if it was just a half hearted Nazi salute.
I was waiting for the snap of loudly click together of heals - then a very boisterous and crisp - "Sieg Heil". But nothing .. now I am confused.

Why were the Fascist MAGA Meathead Morons holding their arms up in the air at the Orange Fuhrer 's latest Nazi Rally ?

What was the significance of this ?

Are they pointing at tRump because they think he is their coming Messiah ? Oh,.. and the background church organ music is a nice touch.

Boy,.. these Nazis don't fool around,.. they put on such a fucking wonderful stage show. No wonder the crowd goes so nuts. The Orange Fuhrer is such a dynamic speaker. I have never seen anyone excite a crowd better than he does,...

except for Adolf Hitler - he was the grand master of the podium.

[Nevilledog]

12. It's a QAnon thing

[magicarpet]

15. Oh thanks,..

Got it,.. news too me.

Maybe I should be more attuned to the Q-Anon thang ?

[Nevilledog]

22. Sure, if things that make you hit your ahead against the wall is your thing.

[rubbersole]

18. Qs greatest hits "In Stereo!"

[DET]

16. Sieg Heil!

That’s as close to a Nazi salute as I’ve seen. They probably seeded plants in the audience to start the salute and then the hive mind took over. I have no idea what the finger is about, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a weird cult symbol for ‘f*** the libs’ (the more generic middle finger was already taken). Trump’s hypnotic monotone with background music was clearly intentional. This traitor needs to go before he incites the next civil war.

[LuvLoogie]

28. They're pointing up at their god in affirmation.

That these words The Vandal speaks are from On High. "It's You, Lord! Oh Holy of Holy Fascist Bigots! Redeemer MAGA!"

[Initech]

17. Everything the MAGAs do is so fucking weird!

[Nevilledog]

29. Guess they're referring to him as GEOTUS

God Emperor of the United States.

[tavernier]

46. And we refer to them as CLETUS

Camp Loon E Tunes Under Satan

[hedda_foil]

20. Seig heil!

[Native]

21. This is fucking insane!

[Kyesha]

23. One small issue...

At the risk of being unpopular, can I recommend that we as a culture stop using this "Drink the kool-aid" cliche, like forever? First of all, cliches are dumb. And most of the country today weren't alive in 1978, so they're probably not going to get the reference. I was only a year old at the time of that horrible incident, but from what I've watched and read over the years, a vast majority of those who died at Jonestown were children or people who were practically prisoners at Jonestown who had their passports confiscated. On that dreadful November day, the 900 or so "cultists" were corralled by gun-toting losers and told to drink cyanide. The only ones who survived were somehow able to escape. Had they been given the choice of a violent death vs. a plane ticket back to San Francisco, my guess is there'd be a lot fewer deaths in Jonestown. So the comparison is unfair. Nobody's forcing these Trumpists to attend rallies or watch Fox News all day. They choose to. And they can choose to turn off the TV and reclaim their lives.

[BumRushDaShow]

43. "I recommend that we as a culture stop using this "Drink the kool-aid" cliche"

You do realize that the term has become a historic idiom or euphemism for a particular situation that is not necessarily expected to be taken literally.

For example you would then apparently propose elimination of similar euphemistic terms such as -

"Heads will roll"
"Fall on their sword"
"Circle the wagons"
"Run the gauntlet"

ALL of which represent dangerous or precarious situations, where 3 of the above literally describe fatal or potentially gruesome outcomes, and NONE of those alive today were around when those terms were first introduced into the lingua franca of both national and world history, and ALL of those terms are still used prolifically today.

So in light of the political situation that we find ourselves in at present, where you have people who have been lured into a cult (like "QAnon" ) and/or a "cult-like" environment, and who as a result, exhibit "cultish behavior", there are historical situations that can be analogized to point to what might transpire as the end result, which is usually tragic.

When you see references to "Waco" and the "Branch Davidians" which point to the devastating event that occurred in 1993 to a "cult", or even here in Philadelphia with what became a catastrophic result after the bombing of the "cult" group "MOVE"'s home/compound in 1980 - these events also represent the clashes with and/or misfortunes that have occurred with "cults", and their aftermath.

So the terms "Waco" or "MOVE bombing" have come into the cultural language with a meaning that might be applicable to current or future situations, but that point back to past incidents.

And as a note - most of those showing up at those rallies WERE around when that event in Guyana happened (as were much of the membership of DU, a discussion board that skews much older than you, with many who even have children your age or older).

[treestar]

44. About 200 out of 900 were children

The inner circle and many were willing. But they had their sources of information about the world cut off, because they followed Jones and believed what he told them. Jones lied about what was going on in the outside world. But they were in the position to believe him because they had joined a cult and pursuant to that, moved to a place so remote at a time when they could be cut off from the news. There were no newspapers or radio there.

Trump followers are not physically in such a remote place that they can be honestly said to not be able to know what is really going on - they are choosing to place themselves in that position with "alternative facts" and calling the real world "fake."

Jonestown happened and is part of history, and it is going to be referred to when similar situations appear to be happening.

[tblue37]

24. The music is the QAnon WWG1WGA theme song!

[samplegirl]

26. Stick a fork in it!

Deflate this assholes ego. He talked about all the jobs he never created for Ohio!
Just looking at him makes me sick!

[chowder66]

27. This is nuts!

https://tenor.com/view/spiral-eyes-gif-19931395

[littlemissmartypants]

39. Here you go...❤️

[chowder66]

40. Thanks. I don't know why it didn't work for me.

I tried copying and pasting.

[littlemissmartypants]

41. You're welcome, I opened it on a separate page then copied the link to that page.

Then pasted the link as a reply. So it took a few steps but it worked, eventually.

❤️

[JohnnyRingo]

30. I see it as rigging a trial and future jury

So when he is indicted he'll say "See, I told you so".

[sarcasmo]

31. Trump doesn't pass around a collection plate?

[SergeStorms]

32. I'd watch it...

but then I'd have to listen to it talk, and I've had quite enough of that already.

I'll wait for one of the shows on MSNBC to provide a verbal or written synopsis of his frighteningly creepy bullshit. It bothers me to no end listening to his bat-shit crazy, psychotic bullshit.

[Gaugamela]

37. He knows he's about to be indicted. He's desperate. This will probably escalate.

[purr-rat beauty]

42. wtf are they pointing at?

[Vinca]

45. This must be "The Church of the Eternal Whine." Somebody give this guy a cookie

and shut him up.

[GoCubsGo]

47. Yes, all of his rallies are mostly a litany of grievances.

It's usually all the same ones as the previous rally. The only difference here is that they're adding music. It's part of the reason why the crowd was so thin last night. That was the true die-hards. Everyone else was home watching the OSU game, instead of there listening to the same, old shit over and over and over and over...