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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNick Fuentes just realized MAGA is a cult...
At the Trump rallies, theyre yelling trash for Trump, trash for Trump. And I saw other people. I saw white guys. I saw Hispanic guys, Hispanic guys inside trash cans jumping out of them with Trump signs, white guys with garbage bags that say trash for Trump, said Fuentes.
That was the moment when I realized Trumpism was a cult. That was the moment when I realized liberals are right. That was the moment when I realized it had gone too far. It is Frankensteins monster. We have created a golem. It is a problem.
You know, for years, liberals said its a cult. Youre in a cult. And I said, well youre going to jail. It is a cult, and were in it, and you are going to jail: thats how I felt about it for the past eight years.
But then I saw them dressing up as trash, like uncritically, just dressing up as garbage, and saying, Were garbage. Yeah, were garbage. And I said, Yeah, I think we have a problem.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/neo-nazi-commentator-nick-fuentes-accepts-liberals-are-right/
RockRaven
(16,577 posts)The sharks are all starting to smell blood
TwilightZone
(28,834 posts)He sees the writing on the wall and is distancing himself.
Ocelot II
(121,648 posts)Deuxcents
(20,251 posts)Ocelot II
(121,648 posts)and he's concluded it's all so stupid that they must be in a cult. I doubt his political ideology has changed a bit.
Enter stage left
(3,860 posts)Otherwise, crawl back under your rock.
askyagerz
(901 posts)Not that he was actually against cults lol
struggle4progress
(120,556 posts)Coexist
(26,202 posts)Fuentes, however, has not abandoned his outright racist and deeply antisemitic views.
His latest posts on X include bigoted remarks against the United Kingdoms Conservative Partys decision to elect a Black woman as its leader and claims that women should not have the right to vote.
RockRaven
(16,577 posts)is committed to his own cause(s) regardless of TCF.
Sounds like Fuentes has decided TCF is a loser and wants to open up a distinction between his people and MAGAts so that when TCF loses (again) his followers can say to themselves "I'm a Groyper, not a MAGAt" IOW "I'm not a loser" as a balm to their butthurt.
Claustrum
(5,052 posts)That said he can grab my p****, when they all wore that ear patch, when they wore shirts that said they rather be Russian, its really no different than this.
The only difference is this time it is directed at him and his people. Their actions are clearly a cult. I dont say that lightly.
I guess its better late than never.
Boomerproud
(8,498 posts)No redemption.
Nasruddin
(876 posts)One hopes it's before someone with a gun shows up with the Flavor Aid
Cha
(305,910 posts)Yeah Ill Rec it.
Lol Liberals are Right.. TSF is a Cult ☠️💀
Freethinker65
(11,165 posts)Being a leader of a cult was appealing to Fuentes. Easy money.
The money (and attention) is drying up. Time for something different.
askyagerz
(901 posts)oldmanlynn
(521 posts)Hes trying to act like theyre on the opposite side of MAGA as it looks like theyre fixing to lose. Lessen any political fallout from being pro maga
askyagerz
(901 posts)That Trump's power of retribution has just went up in smoke. It's OK for the rats to abandon ship now because they are within swimming distance of land
Beartracks
(13,620 posts)Maybe he's thinking that the dumb gradeschool cosplay stuff makes it harder to take the GOP seriously, and then we all can't realize how amazingly legitimate and well-justified the party's racist underpinnings are. Of course, you can't really separate the two: both the stupid antics and the racist worldview require the same level of pre-teen rationalizing.
But anyway... gleefully "taking back" the word "garbage" or wearing tampons on their shirts, or even the stupid nicknames, these are not at all the flexes that Republicans so desperately think they are. It's just so cringe
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askyagerz
(901 posts)I went to a Marilyn manson concert in the late 90s. It was in downtown Indy so several hotels got taken over and all the normal people were horrified with all these goth kids walking around.
That's what these people do when try to own the libs. They live in an echo chamber and think they are the majority. Then like eager teens they take it to circus levels which just makes everyday citizens step back and walk around
P.s. when we walked outside after the concert the churches had all gathered and formed a prayer circle around the arena. They had to bring in the riot cops to let us out. Good times!
Beartracks
(13,620 posts)I think I've only had to walk through (well, past) protestors once, to get into a theater to see The Last Temptation of Christ. Nothing dramatic, however, and no police presence that I recall.
But yeah, these days: circus. That's an apt description of the MAGA cult, both inside and outside their rallies. And the metaphor makes sense given that they have a ringmaster, too. He must get such a huge rush out of playing these little monkeys like a fiddle and seeing them flagellate and prostrate and make asses of themselves all in his name.
(No offense to actual monkeys intended. I was thinking of monkey see, monkey do, and it just sorta fit with the circus theme.)
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askyagerz
(901 posts)So yeah it was pretty amazing.
That's what makes me pissed about Trump the most. He's not only using people I care about but I know he's getting off on it.
I think once his retribution power dries up we are going to start hearing some really damning audio/vidoes and it will free a lot of people currently in his web
UTUSN
(72,800 posts)Renew Deal
(83,148 posts)askyagerz
(901 posts)And a white state all in one day lol
askyagerz
(901 posts)And gonna Ceaser this archaic fool
Klarkashton
(2,329 posts)Fools.
FrankBooth
(1,816 posts)NM