Comments on: I tried. But I can’t watch it anymore. https://habitablezone.com/2024/07/16/i-tried-but-i-cant-watch-it-anymore/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2024/07/16/i-tried-but-i-cant-watch-it-anymore/#comment-53264 BuckGalaxy Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:51:44 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=103791#comment-53264 I would guess that half or more of the speakers don't believe the bullshit they are saying about Trump, but they have to swing on his nutsack to have any political future with his cult base. Speaking of cults, the amount of rightwing nutjobs saying God saved Trump is making me sick to my stomach. Yeah, God redirected that bullet into that fireman's skull. Thank you God. I would guess that half or more of the speakers don’t believe the bullshit they are saying about Trump, but they have to swing on his nutsack to have any political future with his cult base.

Speaking of cults, the amount of rightwing nutjobs saying God saved Trump is making me sick to my stomach. Yeah, God redirected that bullet into that fireman’s skull. Thank you God.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2024/07/16/i-tried-but-i-cant-watch-it-anymore/#comment-53263 ER Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:57:41 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=103791#comment-53263 One after another, former fierce critics from his own party now lining up to sing his praises and repeat the same lies and exaggerations they once condemned. It has a Soviet show trial or Spanish Inquisition aspect to it I can't quite put my finger on. Its a string of testimonies from the condemned at a Nazi kangaroo court, parading up to the witness box to denounce the accused. I kept asking myself, how does he make them do it? It all reminds me of the final interrogation in 1984. And again, what really terrifies me is not that it can happen, (there is plenty of historical precedent) but that no one in the cult seems to recognize how familiar, how obvious, how formulaic it has all become. <em>"For I know that the hypnotized never lie"</em> One after another, former fierce critics from his own party now lining up to sing his praises and repeat the same lies and exaggerations they once condemned. It has a Soviet show trial or Spanish Inquisition aspect to it I can’t quite put my finger on. Its a string of testimonies from the condemned at a Nazi kangaroo court, parading up to the witness box to denounce the accused. I kept asking myself, how does he make them do it?

It all reminds me of the final interrogation in 1984. And again, what really terrifies me is not that it can happen, (there is plenty of historical precedent) but that no one in the cult seems to recognize how familiar, how obvious, how formulaic it has all become.

“For I know that the hypnotized never lie”

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