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wcmagumba

(6,398 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:34 PM Feb 2025

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Blues Heron

(8,899 posts)
1. Excellent comment
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:37 PM
Feb 2025

The creepiness oozes out from deep within their withered, twisted souls

walkingman

(10,982 posts)
2. I have MAGAdar and can spot one usually with about a 90% probability. It helps me stay safe.
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:42 PM
Feb 2025

H2O Man

(79,125 posts)
3. Recommended.
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:46 PM
Feb 2025

Because they are.

Klarkashton

(5,350 posts)
4. It's an intentional but transparent psyops strategy
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:51 PM
Feb 2025

Put the absolute worst people imaginable in positions of ultimate authority and force the public to give up. Then put the fucking boot down.
Putting musk in the oval office with that weird little bastard kid was random and pretending like it was business as usual? It's a whole goddamn plan.

arthritisR_US

(7,812 posts)
9. And the media was so fecking complicit 😖
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 12:16 AM
Feb 2025

Klarkashton

(5,350 posts)
12. The media craves content. He provides it every day.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 01:18 AM
Feb 2025

Cha

(319,584 posts)
5. Because they ARE!! WORSE!
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:55 PM
Feb 2025

OAITW r.2.0

(32,334 posts)
6. The dumbest people will be getting hired for jobs they are unqualified to do.
Thu Feb 13, 2025, 11:57 PM
Feb 2025

That's the play. Promote moron's and lose the intelligent folks making our government work. I give it 6 months before it is a total callosal fucking crash and burn. Then Trump comes after the opposition that he has to be held accountable. Putin wins!

RockRaven

(19,555 posts)
7. There's a selection pressure for buffoonery. Namely, The Convicted Felon.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 12:13 AM
Feb 2025

Think of it like biological evolution/Darwinism, but instead of generations/reproducing the success/failure aspect is keeping your job for another Scaramucci/fortnight. And instead of a gene pool or breeding population it is a minion pool.

The non-buffoons are unable or unwilling to do whatever is required by TCF to keep their jobs for that next time cycle, and are weeded out of the minion pool. Those who persist are bigger buffoons on average than those who have been removed, and the replacements are on average akin to the existing minions at any given moment. Over time, many iterations, the existing minion pool becomes more and more buffoon-like. A survival of the buffoonish.

Efilroft Sul

(4,429 posts)
8. "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 12:15 AM
Feb 2025

You can sometimes see a demonic element in the eyes and faces of MAGA leadership and minions. It is an expression of twisted glee. These people live for cruelty and the destruction of all that is sensible and good and kind. Whatever was once human, or humane, in them has been driven out by their choice and unlikely to return. I truly believe they would kill us all if they could, and be quite happy in their endeavors.

arthritisR_US

(7,812 posts)
10. Such an excellent post!👏🏼👍🏼
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 12:19 AM
Feb 2025

NameAlreadyTaken

(2,305 posts)
11. They are all WEIRD.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 12:56 AM
Feb 2025

JHB

(38,263 posts)
13. Because they're creepy buffoons? But you know that already.
Fri Feb 14, 2025, 01:23 AM
Feb 2025
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