The similarities between Putin and Trump are staggering

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Joe Capitalist

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Despots like Trump and Putin create loyalty tests, ghoulish charades to separate true believers from pretenders. To be trusted, advisers must lie on behalf of the regime. Those who repeat absurd claims without blinking are deemed loyal. Anyone who hesitates is considered suspect.

In Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, for example, the lies have gotten progressively more ridiculous. Once a lie becomes widely accepted, the value of that individual loyalty test declines. Once everyone knows that Kim Jong Un learned to drive when he was just 3 years old, a new, more extreme lie must emerge for the test to serve its purpose. The cycle repeats itself, and a cult of personality is born.

Plenty of people around Putin understood that dynamic, which is why they were willing to parrot Putin’s outlandish claim that the Jewish president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is presiding over a “neo-Nazi” state. (Such mythmaking can happen in democracies too, if you have an authoritarian-style leader. Just consider how many Republicans have fallen over one another to endorse Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election in order to prove their MAGA bona fides.)
 
Bad currency drives out good is an old economic axiom. Bad lies drive out the truth is its modern counterpart. It seems people can actually believe things that are ridiculous and absurd if they want to. Trumpys want to. I see no hope.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
Despots like Trump and Putin create loyalty tests, ghoulish charades to separate true believers from pretenders. To be trusted, advisers must lie on behalf of the regime. Those who repeat absurd claims without blinking are deemed loyal. Anyone who hesitates is considered suspect.

In Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, for example, the lies have gotten progressively more ridiculous. Once a lie becomes widely accepted, the value of that individual loyalty test declines. Once everyone knows that Kim Jong Un learned to drive when he was just 3 years old, a new, more extreme lie must emerge for the test to serve its purpose. The cycle repeats itself, and a cult of personality is born.

Plenty of people around Putin understood that dynamic, which is why they were willing to parrot Putin’s outlandish claim that the Jewish president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is presiding over a “neo-Nazi” state. (Such mythmaking can happen in democracies too, if you have an authoritarian-style leader. Just consider how many Republicans have fallen over one another to endorse Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election in order to prove their MAGA bona fides.)
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You sure that isn't you having your 10th Budweiser in the last 60 minutes...?

 
Nordberg said:
Bad currency drives out good is an old economic axiom. Bad lies drive out the truth is its modern counterpart. It seems people can actually believe things that are ridiculous and absurd if they want to. Trumpys want to. I see no hope.
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Yet even when presented with irrefutable proof that the Keystone XL pipeline was not going to be used for exporting oil you still believed the bullshit, so what does that say about you?
 
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Primavera said:
Yet even when presented with irrefutable proof that the Keystoner XL pipeline was not going to be used for exporting oil you still believed the bullshit, so what does that say about you?
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Trump should just buy his own country and have all his supporters move there. A yuge win for America and freedom.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
Despots like Trump and Putin create loyalty tests, ghoulish charades to separate true believers from pretenders. To be trusted, advisers must lie on behalf of the regime. Those who repeat absurd claims without blinking are deemed loyal. Anyone who hesitates is considered suspect.

In Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, for example, the lies have gotten progressively more ridiculous. Once a lie becomes widely accepted, the value of that individual loyalty test declines. Once everyone knows that Kim Jong Un learned to drive when he was just 3 years old, a new, more extreme lie must emerge for the test to serve its purpose. The cycle repeats itself, and a cult of personality is born.

Plenty of people around Putin understood that dynamic, which is why they were willing to parrot Putin’s outlandish claim that the Jewish president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is presiding over a “neo-Nazi” state. (Such mythmaking can happen in democracies too, if you have an authoritarian-style leader. Just consider how many Republicans have fallen over one another to endorse Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election in order to prove their MAGA bona fides.)
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The only similarities between tRump and Putin is that Putin is on the top and tRump is on the bottom at being tRump's pimp, and at tRump being Putin's staggering bitch. Flunk tRump!
 
Joe Capitalist said:
Despots like Trump and Putin create loyalty tests, ghoulish charades to separate true believers from pretenders. To be trusted, advisers must lie on behalf of the regime. Those who repeat absurd claims without blinking are deemed loyal. Anyone who hesitates is considered suspect.

In Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, for example, the lies have gotten progressively more ridiculous. Once a lie becomes widely accepted, the value of that individual loyalty test declines. Once everyone knows that Kim Jong Un learned to drive when he was just 3 years old, a new, more extreme lie must emerge for the test to serve its purpose. The cycle repeats itself, and a cult of personality is born.

Plenty of people around Putin understood that dynamic, which is why they were willing to parrot Putin’s outlandish claim that the Jewish president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is presiding over a “neo-Nazi” state. (Such mythmaking can happen in democracies too, if you have an authoritarian-style leader. Just consider how many Republicans have fallen over one another to endorse Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election in order to prove their MAGA bona fides.)
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Celticguy said:
do try to keep up...
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No thanks:

The biggest waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who doesn't care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on discussions that make no sense. There are people who, for all the evidence presented to them, do not have the ability to understand. Others who are blinded by ego, hatred and resentment, and the only thing that they want is to be right even if they aren’t.

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Joe Capitalist said:
Despots like Trump and Putin create loyalty tests, ghoulish charades to separate true believers from pretenders. To be trusted, advisers must lie on behalf of the regime. Those who repeat absurd claims without blinking are deemed loyal. Anyone who hesitates is considered suspect.

In Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, for example, the lies have gotten progressively more ridiculous. Once a lie becomes widely accepted, the value of that individual loyalty test declines. Once everyone knows that Kim Jong Un learned to drive when he was just 3 years old, a new, more extreme lie must emerge for the test to serve its purpose. The cycle repeats itself, and a cult of personality is born.

Plenty of people around Putin understood that dynamic, which is why they were willing to parrot Putin’s outlandish claim that the Jewish president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is presiding over a “neo-Nazi” state. (Such mythmaking can happen in democracies too, if you have an authoritarian-style leader. Just consider how many Republicans have fallen over one another to endorse Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election in order to prove their MAGA bona fides.)
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You really are a sad pathetic caricature of ignorance and stupidity. No one had to lie for Trump. Trump never invaded any nations. No one had to take a loyalty test. Trump was the most transparent President we have ever had. Trump didn't take bribes like SloJoe and didn't even take a salary.

It's really astounding how stupid and dishonest America hating leftist hacks like you are.

Meanwhile, it's the Democratic Party of Lying Jackasses trying to tear down our institutions, make a mockery of them, stack the Supreme Court, disarm law abiding citizens and taking a knee defending criminal elements burning and looting our cities. :palm:
 
Nordberg said:
Bad currency drives out good is an old economic axiom. Bad lies drive out the truth is its modern counterpart. It seems people can actually believe things that are ridiculous and absurd if they want to. Trumpys want to. I see no hope.
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douchebag
noun
douche·bag | \ ˈdüsh-ˌbag \
an obnoxious, offensive, or disgusting person
mental case
noun
: a crazy person
That guy is a complete mental case.
 
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