These Holidays are going to be worse than last year. Ask me how I know. Jim...
We mopped the floor with the Trumpsters and all those that walk that cultish line.My entire family is torn completely apart. This is civil war without the shooting.Seriously, no hyperbole. Kids,...
View ArticleWith Donald Trump, we literally have a "cult" Presidency.
cultkəlt/nouna system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object."the cult of St. Olaf"a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices...
View ArticleWe can't teach Trump about history, but we can teach Trumpers--some of them.
Clearly, it would be very close to impossible to teach Trump or his hard-core base anything about history, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t remind the rest of the world that his view of the...
View Article10 signs the Republican Party is now a full-blown cult
The Republican Party is no longer a political party—it’s a full-blown cult. Look at any list that has the features of a cult spelled out and you’ll recognize not only Trump, but his devout followers....
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Request we cease white-centric abuse of words "tribe"& "tribal" even if...
… whom we quote from journalism and other fields go on doing it. “Tribe” and “cult” are not synonymous. Genuine heritage and family are in no way the equivalent of individuals who —by free and...
View ArticleThe Republican Party has become a cult
Yesterday, one of my associates here at Daily Kos; Sammy912; shared his opinion with me that the Republican Party is a cult. Considering the evidence at our fingertips, that’s actually a fairly...
View ArticleQAnon Forever
This shouldn't really have to be said, but here it is anyway: The United States of America is not, in fact, run by a shadow network of thousands of human-trafficking pedophiles who sexually torture...
View ArticleThe Catholic League’s Bill Donohue Attacks Me for My Piece on AG Barr and...
Last week,I posted a piecehere at Daily Kos where I detailed how the teachings of Opus Dei’s founder may explain how Attorney General William Barr’s apparent willingness to “put away his scruples”–...
View ArticleEmail reply regarding my cult Mom
Look Kim. I want to solve this too. You're right it is ridiculous. But when your own Mother says "If you don't like that what I do for three hours a night makes you boiling mad then you can just get...
View ArticleDealing With the Trump Cult
Four weeks have passed since the El Paso Walmart shootings and Donald Trump's incredibly insensitive response. During this period the nation has witnessed multiple episodes of Trump's bizarre behavior....
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Keeping Team Avocado in line: controlling an online cult
Before reading this diary, be sure to read my previous entry “The rotten avocados of the Resistance” in which I gave a condensed outline of the history of Hepzibah Nanna and Team Avocado. This story...
View ArticleSteve Hassan’s The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the...
Just about all of us have friends and family who, only ashore while ago who we knew as moderately conservative, centrist or even progressive, but have now become rabid Trump supporters, often adopting...
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Washington Free Beacon names Dumb Jr 2019 Man of the Year
Hard Right Trump supporting radicals at the Washington Free Bacon have named Dumb Jr as their 2019 Man of the Year. (Seriously the article is hilarious — this is its internet archive link). It is the...
View ArticleTrumpism as Cult
The kind and number of Trump’s administrative gaffes, his incessant daily lies, his boorish behavior, his total and complete doing the exact opposite of what he said he would do to restore the lives of...
View ArticleHe should have been a shipping clerk...
...instead, he has embraced his role as cult leader-in-chief.“Governors are supposed to be doing a lot of this work, and they are doing a lot of this work. The Federal government is not supposed to be...
View ArticleWhy Can't I Get Through To The Conspiracy Theorist In My Life? Dan Olson...
Dan Olson is a Canadian director, actor, writer, and YouTuber who tends to come across as the stereotypical polite Canuck, but has a deeply intelligent way about his creations. In his own words on his...
View ArticleA Catholic’s Case Against Amy Coney Barrett
It may be tempting to focus primarily on Amy Coney Barrett’s membership in People of Praise. But we shouldn’t. As a Catholic, I find that organization to be concerning and her involvement, maybe also...
View ArticleRead this and consider. President Elect and VP Elect Harris know this. Don't...
Do you really believe the little turtle and pig Barr and loonie Graham and others will go so far as to try and disenfranchise the first Black /Asian woman VP in American history? Do you think after...
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Olbermann vs. Trump #39: 12/14 - Unite? You're kidding.
Monday night, and all’s… strange.xxYouTube VideoI’m finding this image to be useful today — and I still don’t know why. In any case, enjoy.
View ArticleTrump’s $2000 Bribe (or) Weekend at Moonies
There is a courtroom scene in the movie The Untouchables where Elliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner, discovers everyone on the jury at Al Capone’s trial has been bribed to find Al Capone...
View ArticleTo understand what happens next with QAnon, it helps to look back at past cults
What’s the difference between a cult and a religion? Scale. Every religion begins somewhere in a basement or a backyard or a barn with a small group of people and some scrap of received wisdom. Most of...
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The Top 10 Signs you've Joined a Cult ... (Pssst GOP, we're looking at you.)
— — Yeah sure. That’s right. Let me check. People are saying that. Everybody knows.— —Written by a former Cult member:10 Signs You’re Probably In A Cult1. The leader is the ultimate authority2. The...
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Clinicians had their say about Trump. Now it's time for experts on cults and...
Hal Brown, MSWUpdateI write this as someone who has written dozens of stories about Trump’s psychopathology as have numerous other mental health professionals. Some will be well known names to those...
View ArticleThese people are even dimmer and less informed than I believed was possible...
Unfortunately, I seem to get notified about when somebody posts in my Facebook feed. Thankfully, it only occurs every once in a while it seems. These people are even dumber and less informed than you...
View ArticleThe cult leader
Even from a young age he had embraced criminality. After spending 20-odd years usually fighting with the law, all the while becoming more and more adept at gaming the system, he found himself feeling...
View ArticleQanon elected officials aren't mentally disabled. They are leaders in an evil...
Every day I see and read stories about Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Beobert, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Tuberville, The stories pop up and on social media, there is a similar response: there...
View ArticleQanon: Stranger than Fiction or Influenced by Fiction?
I’ve always been intrigued and, at the same time, disgusted by cults. It falls under my umbrella interest in psychology which started at age 13 when I picked up a psychology book my father had left in...
View ArticleWhat's happening to Adam Kinzinger is frightening ... and telling
As many Americans are aware, Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger is one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in inciting the insurrection of Jan. 6. The conservative Air...
View ArticleAlabama GOP declares Trump 'one of the greatest presidents' ever
Q: What’s the difference between the Branch Davidians and the Trump Death Cult? A: The Branch Davidians thought their leader was Jesus, whereas the Trumpies think their guy is way the fuck better than...
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You Blocks, You Stones, You Worse than Senseless Things!
“Everything is connected to everything else.” That’s what I told my college students. Psychology is connected to literature; literature is connected to history; history is connected to politics;...
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10 Signs You’re Probably In A Cult
—Just a few more “signs” of the times …Won’t it be something when those who joke about “wokeness”—finally realize the BIGGEST JOKE of them all, was played on them … at their own personal expense ...10...
View ArticleWhat Happened?
Lately I’ve come to the difficult to acknowledge conclusion that some of my oldest friends from the ‘way back’ have lost their fucking minds.Some have fallen prey to the ‘born again’ folks, others to...
View ArticleAnother tragedy of the QAnon cult: Man abducts and brutally kills his...
The American criminal justice system recognizes “insanity”as a legal term of art. In its most familiar context, a defense of “not guilty by reason of insanity” implies the perpetrator of a crime was...
View ArticleWaiting for JFK Jr.: QAnon cult’s followers create a deeply unsettling...
The wing of the QAnon conspiracy cult that believes John F. Kennedy Jr. faked his death and will return to the American political scene as Donald Trump’s running mate showed up earlier this month in...
View ArticleWell, Elections have consequences. Supreme Court blocks Mandate. We are at...
What can I say that the title didn’t. Not much. For all of those people who did not want Hillary, this is for you. It is your baby, but we all have to rock it. For all the people who didn’t want...
View ArticleMy Sovereign Ass
For the past year our family has experienced a succession of health related problems involving both physical and mental health issues. We are both retired, and my role in the family has inched its was...
View ArticleHow "thoughts and prayers" works
Many people have already characterized the devotion to the Second Amendment (“gun rights”) and to the NRA in general as somewhat cultish. That the GOP has been in such lockstep with the NRA over so...
View ArticleRepublicans in the House: Still in captivity to the insurrectionist wing
Many of us were worried about how our nation would survive the 2022 elections with the insurrectionist still holding much of the former GOP captive with lies that have been easily proven, often by...
View ArticleWhen Friends Go Down the Rabbit Hole
Several years ago a friend I hadn’t seen in a few years dropped by. We were sitting on the back patio shooting the shit and drinking beer when I looked up and saw a low, convoluted contrail. I pointed...
View ArticleCult Conversion
Leon Salzman (“The Psychology of Religions and Ideological Conversion”) speaks to what he calls regressive or psychopathological conversion. He says,[I]t is a highly charged, profound, emotional...
View ArticleWhen the cult implodes...
the leader of the packWell, I’ll be! The name-calling by our former president has gotten both personal and historic. I read his stump rant and discovered that he has me lumped in with a mixed bag of...
View ArticleOf Big Lies, Pizzagates, and Hurricanes
You see, the beauty of a CULT is that, when you have a constituency comprised of enough sociopaths, bigots, supremacists, nationalists, the willfully... even deliberately ignorant, and also, to be...
View ArticleWe Need an "ie"
Since the recent poll showing self-ID’d Republicans trust the word of Donald Trump over everyone else, including clergy, I’ve been seeing the word “cult” fluttering closer and closer to the Overton...
View ArticleAn appeal to a Trump lover.
I have been on Facebook this evening and came across a woman who said she loved Trump. This is my response to her. You hate communists but you love that fascist? Traitor, seditionist, tax cheat,...
View ArticleCREDO: My View on the Three Interconnected Vengeful Male Sky God Cults
Last week, I posted a diary at DK that questioned how well this great, longstanding blog and blogging community are covering the ongoing war in Palestine and Israel. The diary ended up both engendering...
View ArticleThe cults that took over Christian colleges now aim to take over your government
“Would you be OK with taking a pregnancy test to prove your innocence?" There’s a place where pregnancy is a crime. I’m not talking about some future dystopian fiction, but rather what happens at...
View ArticleExtra Super-Special
I was enjoying a t.v. series about a young woman who, after the untimely death of her mother, started doubting the origin stories her mother told her. It was kind of a supernatural murder mystery. A...
View ArticleIs Money or Marx the root of all evil
I wrote a long comment on the recent diary “AntiCapitalist MeetUp "One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?" a new series” But it got too long and rather than dumping on the parade there I...
View ArticleMore Info on the Ex-MAGA Granny and Jan 6 "Rioter" Who Ended Up Voting for...
UPDATE: Monday, Feb 5, 2024 · 8:52:54 PM +00:00·IrontortoiseSince I rather blew past all “fair use” standards when publishing the original version of this diary, I’ve gone ahead and edited things down...
View ArticleCults of Personality, The Flaw in Human Nature
Cults of personality are nearly indestructible, Hitler and Stalin are some of the worst mass murderers in history, but they are still revered by some, decades after their deaths. Kim Il Sung. dead...
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