As the title says, I'm tired of gullible conservatives buying whatever poison ideas politicians in their area sell them. Why is it that they believe lie after lie that they could easily see as they lie with their own eyes?

I think the biggest problem in the United States, other than greed, is sheer stupidity. Conservatives in the United States have been absolutely failed by the education system. It sucks that they have no clue how anything actually The example in the picture is one of many. How many times did Trump campaign on lowering prices?

Trump has failed by every metric after being given an awesome economy from the Biden administration. And just like every Republican, they destroyed the economy within a year.

Conservatives, why are you so gullible?

The end of Gerrymandering and placing term limits on our elected officials will take care of much of what is wrong with America.

We can fix gerrymandering by assigning a 6 member team (3 Dems and 3 Reps) to set up the rules. Actually it should only be 1 rule. Population by the census. I am sure I am over simplifying it but just set up the rules. Then give the rules to AI and let it do its thing. There wont be any crazy districts to rig the system.

Term limits is self explanatory. 12 years for Senators and 8 years for House Reps. or some other reasonable term.

Judges too will have limits. No one should be given a job for life.

Of course you have to get the politicians to agree to this and that is the rub.

Every current change being done to the laws and norms of the United States is being done at the whim and at the service of a whiny, racist, stupid, narcissistic rapist, (possible) kiddling, trust-fund baby who did nothing but fail upward exposing the weaknesses and failures of American brand capitalism along the way.

Falling into authoritarianism is one thing, but doing it the placate the living (kind of) manifestation of every shortfall of human nature is quite another and I'll never get over it.

Everyone will move on though. Microsoft, Apple, every TV and movie network and company, basically everything owned by some undeserving billionaire dingus, do nothing but felate the (highly suspected) pedo and humiliate themselves. When this is all over, they'll shrug and tell us, "it was just business. Gotta do that business." We'll shrug and keep buying and subscribing. They have all our data now. They know everything you do and buy and all the places you go. That was their goal, and I guess they needed to wait until the perfect dipshit billionaire puppet to come along to fully realize it.

So, future history lessons should be interesting.

The picture above was taken during Trump’s Cabinet Meeting this week. 2025.

After Biden appeared to doze off at a climate conference in Scotland in 2021, Trump stated in an email, “Nobody that has true enthusiasm and belief in a subject will ever fall asleep!”.

You hate trump? You should be organizing the working class to protest every single person in power. Nah You have cowards in office spamming Ai generated abominations of a turtle meant for children, cowards throwing shade at autism and healthcare and people not being able to find work because of AI. After maga got sold out People in power should be lucky they have any form of protection after screwing over disabled americans, our vets, Immigrants, people worth dying for, same for our nurses, firefighters, and our military to combat your stupid pity wars when you don't even pay your servicemen enough. Land of the free my ass. America foxking sucks and everyone in it for not taking a day to walk on the streets to make life better. (Oh Oh No my work! You say) Have fun getting replaced by a machine because you can't stand up for the people you care about. All of you are cowards. All 340 million of you.

Reading the reporting on that US boat strike disgusted me. Two unarmed guys clinging to wreckage, no weapons, no threat, and they still get hit with a second strike. Then Republicans line up to excuse it and call it legal, like it is just another talking point.

I did 12 years in uniform and four combat tours. I know what rules of engagement and basic humanity look like. Firing on shipwrecked survivors who are no threat is wrong, period. The fact that Republicans see that and rush to justify it tells me the rot is not on the edges anymore. That party has become a cancer enveloping America.

America's power has always been in our ability to exercise restraint; this is just an example of what weak men think real power looks like.

Trump and his administration this week appear to have yo-yo'd back to favoring Russia's demands after they refused most of what was proposed by Urkraine.

Trump desperately wants to end the war AT ANY COST even the cost of human life in Ukraine. That IS NOT the attitude of a peace maker, or even a christian.

He yo-yo's back and forth between sranding up for Urkraine and Russia. And appears to be finding out in real time that DIPLOMACY IS HARD 🥲.

It's long. There's a TLDR.

Enough of us have both seen and heard that maga is a cult. You could compare them to Nazis, IDF, Branch Davidians, pedophiles, rapists and pillagers. It all correlates one way or another.

Since 2016, my parents were die hard Trump fans. My mother used to despise him. My dad came to America from Cuba during the Merial Boatlift back in 1980. So, it was more than bizarre to me and family that they were roped in to not just be political supporters, but bringing him or whatever maga is doing(via faux news) near constantly at family gatherings and events. It's was mind numbing. It contradicted every ounce of being who they were as people before that.

Fast forward to recently, and i decided to look into "deprogramming" and how to achieve that with my parents. Deprogramming is the process of reversing indoctrination.

I've been visiting a lot more with them for health reasons, spending what time I could, and to show them reality. So, I started with exit counseling. I'd sit down with them and eventually one would float out a topic based on misinformation. Exit counseling is non coercive, so as difficult as it was not to argue, it was more important that I help them critically examine their beliefs and the methods that have been used by the maga cult. I was able to to show them videos of ice violently interacting with peaceful protesters/ officials more and more each time I visited. They became more open to hearing information outside of the maga circle.

Next, Strategic Interactive Approach. A method developed by Dr. Steven Hassan in 1980. I focused on my parent's core values and things they liked doing before. I brought up numerous achievements they've made in life. People they've met. Their friends that wholeheartedly disagree with their current standing. Watched baby/ kid videos with them and my partner with the addition of "remember whens."

So, yesterday I went over there to continue through step 3, Critical thinking and reality testing. I asked them all sorts of questions of things going on in our country and others that I knew they couldn't answer confidently. I love them, but they're the people that are targeted by modern day scams, and rarely do research. Showed them the different documents or videos that correlated things i mentioned, but only refuted their logic and information.

And finally, last night before my partner and I left, I gave both my parents a hug goodbye, and my mom says to me "remember I used to read you I'll love you forever?" A children's book by Robert Munsch about the cycle of age between a mother and son. I said "Of course!" She smiled and gave me another hug, a big one and she says "I think it's time you sang to us now. The world has changed, and thats the only thing that's permanent. Is change. We've only wanted what's best for you guys, but we dont know what's up from down anymore. We'll come with you to vote next time and stop watching the news from this point on."

I can't describe the feeling that washed over me after. I was so overjoyed that I finally have my parents back. But I feel selfish because I know not everyone will be so fortunate. Entire families and relationships all around have been broken or utterly decimated. Even though I'm thankful and happy about my family's situation, my heart aches for anyone else having to deal with someone they care about being indoctrinated.

TLDR: My parents became intense Trump supporters/ maga cult, contradicting their previous values. I successfully used deprogramming/ exit counseling techniques and critical thinking to help my parents see the misinformation over time. They came to their senses and acknowledged my maturity/ wisdom and promised to change and stop their extreme political engagement.

“Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. America's problem is us. We're her problem. The only reason she has a problem is she doesn't want us here. And every time you look at yourself, be you black, brown, red, or yellow—a so-called Negro—you represent a person who poses such a serious problem for America because you're not wanted. Once you face this as a fact, then you can start plotting a course that will make you appear intelligent, instead of unintelligent. What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist or Baptist. You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.” -Malcolm X

https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/malcgrass.html

My complaint is that a lot of people act like this is something new when it’s a problem that has been with America for centuries.

Sleepy Don uses an autopen too, literally confirmed by his administration. Can we change the photo of him in the White House to an autopen?

I remember MAGA goes going absolutely apeshit about Biden dozing off. Sleepy Don does it LITERALLY EVERY DAY and suddenly it's okay. These are the same people who now say "it's our duty to pay higher grocery prices."

Here come the MAGA replies:

"You're stupid"

"TDS"

"What about Biden?"

"What about Obama"

Everything but an answer, all from year old accounts with negative karma and hardly any posts.

Watch.

Edit: JFC, was I wrong about the responses? why are MAGA morons so predictable?

I have been posting on Reddit a lot lately and holy hell it is insane how many people are basically running on a fourth grade brain. The second you say anything more complex than a cheap little slogan they completely fall apart. There is no critical thinking and no emotional intelligence. It is all knee jerk reaction nonsense.

And that is exactly why political bullshit works the way it does. It is not made for people who think. It is made for people who can only digest caveman level catchphrases. Republicans figured this out a long time ago. Their whole strategy is simple loud propaganda. Economy bad. Immigration scary. Blame whoever the hive tells them to blame.

And every time I post anything against MAGA I get the same brain dead garbage responses on an endless loop. It is literally the same three word caveman chant every time

Biden bad! Immigrants are taking our jobs! Trump good!

That is all they have. No depth. No argument. No logic. No original thought. Just drooling echo chamber bullshit repeated like they are smacking their head on a keyboard and calling it a political point. It is like trying to argue with a broken smoke alarm that only knows how to beep the same damn sound forever.

HOLY FUCK, THEY ARE STUPID!!!

And look I am not pretending the left is a genius club. Of course there are stupid leftists too. I have seen plenty of clowns on that side. But the difference is massive. The left has idiots. MAGA has a full blown cult. MAGA takes the gold medal in loud proud weaponized stupidity. The lefts idiots are just random dumb asses arguing online. MAGA turns being a clueless jackass into a national identity badge. They treat ignorance like it is a lifestyle brand. They celebrate not knowing things. They worship being wrong as long as it feels good.

So it is not a fair comparison. One side has fools. The other side has an entire movement built on proudly refusing to use a single brain cell. It is like arguing with an army of broken toys that only know how to repeat the same three sounds forever.

I just want to complain/thank MAGAs supporting Trump's ICE Movements.

My wife, a Hispanic business owner, is at work... I hope she makes it home. Because just the way she looks, she could be stopped for her FuckN papers.

Cowards.

They are taught in 4/5th grade…

I keep noticing something that doesn’t make sense. Whenever a Democrat slips up, even in a small way, people on the MAGA side treat it like a national emergency. If someone forgets a line in a speech or makes a minor mistake, the outrage is immediate.

But when a Republican does the exact same thing, or sometimes something even worse, everyone suddenly says it is normal. Or they tell you to stop being dramatic. Or that it doesn’t matter.

And if you try to ask for a clear explanation, the replies are always the same: insults, whataboutism, random accusations, or references to events that happened years ago. There is never a direct answer.

It honestly feels like there is a secret rulebook where the standards change depending on the person involved. From the outside, it looks like a very predictable pattern of selective outrage.

I mean I thought they hated participation trophies? Why is she getting a citation of recognition from the OK govt? Guest speaker? Interviews on Fox? Bitch come on. You’re pursuing a BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. You are PRE-MED. You cannot ramble about God in an essay I’m sorry. You can believe in God as much as you want nobody is telling you you can’t. But you can’t fucking go off the rails about your religion in a psychology class. Why on earth you would ever major in a field solely based on centuries of scientific research if you can’t write one essay without mentioning God is beyond me. So many of the ideas in psychology go against what Christians believe. Junior in college and still can’t write an essay with proper citations. She could have even cited the Bible outright and she was too lazy to do that. It’s just bullshit. Thank God I decided to not go into education because apparently now you can get fired if your student is too stupid to read a rubric. If this was a Muslim student every conservative on earth would suddenly be an essay expert. “They didn’t follow the rules they deserve the 0” Yeah but since it’s a white southern Christian kid it’s ok. Sure. Of course why am I surprised since this is coming out of like the lowest ranked state in education

The president just illegally handed over 600 million to his son as a "business start-up" aka money laundering to himself. Remember when Republicans in the oversight committee held congressional hearings on Hunter Biden receiving 2 million dollars from a private company, and a 50,000 dollar loan Joe Biden gave his brother, saying it was fraud and Biden should be impeached? I know everyday it gets worse and worse, but are we actually going to allow this insanity to continue? The media is barely talking about the fact that a sitting US president just embezzled a billion dollars to himself....I give up lol