Why do people love Trump? The hypocrisy of Maga.

[BillyCarpenter]

There's only one leader that has acted like a dictator and that's Justin Trudeau. When Trudeau tells you that he admires communism, believe him. He froze bank accounts of peaceful protestors and used the War Act on them. He jailed a comedian that he didn't like. All true.


Here's the proof:


When Justin Trudeau Said He Admired China’s 'Basic Dictatorship'
“There is a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime..."

His father also admired communism. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

[BillyCarpenter]

On Fidel Castro, Justin Trudeau sounds like his father's son


Alexandre Trudeau, writing a decade ago, fondly recalled the stature of Fidel Castro within the Trudeau household.

"When Michel was around eight years old, I remember him complaining to my mother that my older brother and I both had more friends than he did," Alexandre recalled in 2006. "My mother told him that, unlike us, he had the greatest friend of all: he had Fidel."

The older brother, of course, was Justin Trudeau.

In his piece for the Toronto Star, Alexandre recalled that Castro "had a special place" among his family's friends. There was a picture of him in the Trudeau family home — the Cuban dictator holding Michel, the youngest of Pierre and Margaret's three boys, in his arms.

It was Castro who gave Michel the lifelong nickname Miche during Pierre and Margaret's official visit to Cuba in 1976. On that trip, the prime minister found an intellectual sparring partner (and Margaret, according to historical accounts, found brief respite from her personal struggles with life in official Ottawa).

When Pierre Trudeau passed away in 2000, Castro attended the funeral as an honorary pallbearer.


Whether or not this familial connection was a decisive factor in this past weekend's official statement on the passing of Castro, the words of Justin Trudeau read differently if viewed as a note about the death of a family friend: a short message on the passing of Uncle Fidel.

But Castro wasn't merely a pal of Justin Trudeau's dad. And Justin Trudeau isn't merely Pierre Trudeau's son.

The world is far more complicated than that.

Obtuse words on a departed dictator
The statement seemed almost deliberately obtuse.

Castro, Trudeau wrote, had "served his people for almost half a century" and was possessed of "tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people."

Indeed, so dedicated and loving was Castro that he absolutely refused to let anyone else serve the Cuban people as president for 47 years, from 1959 to 2006, at which point he installed his brother in his place.

Castro, Trudeau ventured, was a "remarkable leader" who "made significant improvements to the education and health care of his island nation" and was rewarded with the "deep and lasting affection" of Cubans.

The only nod to the fact something might have been amiss in Fidel Castro's Cuba was the word "controversial" and a reference to the existence of "detractors."

Trudeau's Castro comments send mixed message on human rights
Castro was a dictator, Trudeau says
Trudeau won't attend Castro's funeral
Suffice it to say, this seemed to give short shrift to the full scope of Castro's deeds — the Miami Herald's obituary might be a useful summation.

"It's not a statement I would have recommended," tweeted Roland Paris, the University of Ottawa professor who previously served as Trudeau's senior adviser on foreign policy.

[Copier Addict]

"Would Donald Trump follow through on his more extravagant anti-democratic fantasies? His rhetoric certainly suggests so"

This is what Maga craves. Someone to tell them what to do and how to do it. They truly detest freedom.

https://prospect.org/civil-rights/20...p-be-resisted/

[Copier Addict]

The biased corruption of the US Supreme Court has removed the final obstruction to the dictatorship of Donald Trump.
If he is elected, and with the complete immunity the SC has handed him, he is free to oppress an entire country.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-supreme-court-has-just-removed-the-last-bar-to-trumps-dictatorship/

[Copier Addict]

Trumpy has been very clear about his intentions yet, Maga is still blindly running towards a US dictatorship.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/12/11/donald-trump-dictator-one-day-reelected/71880010007/

[Copier Addict]

"When a madman hammered nearly to death the husband of then–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump jeered and mocked. One of Trump’s sons and other close Trump supporters avidly promoted false claims that Paul Pelosi had somehow brought the onslaught upon himself through a sexual misadventure.

After authorities apprehended a right-wing-extremist plot to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Trump belittled the threat at a rally. He disparaged Whitmer as a political enemy. His supporters chanted “Lock her up.” Trump laughed and replied, “Lock them all up.”


This is how trumpy reacts to violence against others. He loves it. His supporters love it.
Hypocrisy seems to be the only thing Maga has. It's their one running policy.

[Copier Addict]

"One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/07/trump-dictator-authoritarian-president-2024

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"Trump shares word cloud linking potential second term with ‘revenge’ and ‘dictatorship’"

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/12/27/trump-poll-dictatorship-revenge-second-term

[bsm2]

unfortunately Republicans have mastered the art of lying and half truths
and Democrats have to spend more time explaining the truth! and what is the actual reality
Yep they still watch Fox news

[Copier Addict]

In addition to preparing to be a dictator, trumpy is also a grifting charlatan.

"Trump has no political ideology of his own, nor any religious conviction. His concocted, opportunistic spiritual ramblings bamboozle simple-minded evangelicals, even though he has been found liable for sexually abusing a woman, and he has openly admitted sexually assaulting women. He has no morals, principles or ethics. His only motivation is his insatiable greed. He appeals to blue-collar white bigots, white nationalists and xenophobes who feel emasculated by globalism, the nation’s elites and enemies abroad, and are afraid of losing their white majority seat at the table."


https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/o...p-18669943.php

[Copier Addict]

We always wonder how otherwise intelligent people get drawn into a cult. I believe it starts with surrendering their critical thinking first.
And the cult of Trump is no exception

https://www.dailynews.com/2024/02/03/in-the-cult-of-trump-factual-thinking-is-forbidden/

[BillyCarpenter]

Hey, whatever happened to "packing the court"? Thanks in advance.

[Copier Addict]

The cult of Trump resembles this statement quite closely.

"Much like 1930’s and 1940’s Germany, nothing is to be trusted by the cult unless the cult leader says it should be."

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/...dicial-branch/

[Copier Addict]

"Trump’s delusion that he is the forever president emerged about midway through his term and has gelled into the stuff cults are made from. Abandoning all rationality, he continues wearing his red baseball cap like a crown and expounds on issues like a monarch. His most ardent followers’ minds have become pudding as they predict and repredict his restoration like a messianic cult or a doomsday sect. Like a perpetual going-out-of-business sale run by a shady merchant, Trump’s second-coming is never-ending."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/31/the-messianic-trump-cult-00054382

[BillyCarpenter]

Look, Trump isn't gonna be a dictator. The only thing he's gonna do is expand the number of terms a president can serve from 2 to 4. That's 16 years total for those who are counting.