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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Sun May 6, 2018, 01:03 PM May 2018

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Why do people destroy their lives trying to protect someone like Trump?

I guess thats a question for the mental health experts.

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Why do people destroy their lives trying to protect someone like Trump? (Original Post) shockey80 May 2018 OP

Proximity to power and money. Zoonart May 2018 #1

Fake power and money. smirkymonkey May 2018 #2

Trump may have something on some of them no_hypocrisy May 2018 #3

There is document explaining it. Very short, but multiple copies are available DFW May 2018 #4

Loyalty to the cult leader is paramount dalton99a May 2018 #5

Some people are useful idiots, stooges on command. n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #6

Bingo! Nitram May 2018 #7

Makes me think of that scene from The Omen MariaCSR May 2018 #8

Trump's cult is basically Scientology on a diet of lead paint chips. Snake Plissken May 2018 #9

Zoonart

(11,861 posts)

1. Proximity to power and money.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:05 PM

May 2018

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

2. Fake power and money.

Reply to Zoonart (Reply #1)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:06 PM

May 2018

They are buying the illusion.

no_hypocrisy

(46,094 posts)

3. Trump may have something on some of them

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:09 PM

May 2018

(like Giuliani). Blackmail and extortion can go a long way.

DFW

(54,370 posts)

4. There is document explaining it. Very short, but multiple copies are available

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:11 PM

May 2018

And they all have a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the front of each one.

dalton99a

(81,482 posts)

5. Loyalty to the cult leader is paramount

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:14 PM

May 2018

RKP5637

(67,108 posts)

6. Some people are useful idiots, stooges on command. n/t

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:21 PM

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Nitram

(22,794 posts)

7. Bingo!

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 01:49 PM

May 2018

MariaCSR

(642 posts)

8. Makes me think of that scene from The Omen

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 02:10 PM

May 2018

When the girl jumps from off the roof.

"IT'S ALL FOR YOU, TRUMP!"

😂😂

Snake Plissken

(4,103 posts)

9. Trump's cult is basically Scientology on a diet of lead paint chips.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2018, 02:15 PM

May 2018

If you listen to Scientologists defend Scientology it basically the same as listening to trump's cult members, just not as dumb, but the tactics and absence of objective thought are identical.

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