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Political Commentator 1
Trump's Personality cult is so embarrassing. It is so embarrassing. The tens of of millions of Americans watch clips like the one I'm about to show you and think, yeah, let's give him all the power. Let's delegitimize the judiciary and let's delegitimize the press and the legislative branch and let's give this guy as much power as possible. Watch this clip My case I like.
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Political Commentator 2
To take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. Stand on the shower for 15 minutes till it gets wet. It comes out, drip, drip, drip. It's ridiculous.
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Political Commentator 1
I mean that's so embarrassing.
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Political Commentator 3
Why is he. I know he has been obsessed with water pressure and showers for years, but I'm like, you're crashing the economy. Nobody's worried about your beautiful hair. But apparently his personality cult just loves to talk about it.
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Political Commentator 1
Well, the Fox News would beat the drum. It's a whole part of their anti environmental campaign where they talk about light bulbs and they talk about dishwashers and they talk about shower heads and how the Democrats are making sure you have shitty showers and your dishwashers don't work and they create these faux problems and whenever you see societies that have a lot of progress, there's always the people who don't want the progress and that's Trump and the personality cult. And if you think about what happened at the end of 2016. We had an African American president for eight years. We had the involvement and the fantastic civil rights, advancement of gay marriage. And then you see women in positions of power, you see DEI programs and people trying to understand and reconcile our past. Well, there's always been, throughout the course of history, groups of people that oppose progress. Typically, these are white evangelical Christians, specifically to this country, and this is their leader. But again, here we have Trump. It's just this man is only good at one thing and it's propaganda. And here he is. He still struggles very much with the word grocery. He also struggles understanding the difference between an insane asylum and those seeking asylum.
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Political Commentator 2
Play the clip were murderers and drug lords and thieves and people from prisons from all over the world. And there were people from mental institutions, insane asylums. They were taking, they were taking their mentally insane and they were dumping them into the, into our country. And I'll tell you, Tom Holman and Kristi Norman doing a fantastic job.
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Political Commentator 1
Okay, so this is a part of an authoritarian play. They have to repeat the same thing over and over and over again. And this is a, a direct means to dehumanize human beings. If you say they're crazy and they're from insane asylums and that the United States is saying, yeah, give us all your batshit crazy people, we want them, we're going to fund them, we're going to put them up in five star hotels, we're going to give them credit cards and cell phones. This is the Fox News narrative. Problem is some of these people are Christians. And if somebody is seeking a asylum and they are trying to avoid trying to flee from a violent or dangerous situation, that would seem like a Christian thing to do, to say, yes, come in, we want to help you find a job. We want to help you and your children be safe. So they repeat a lot of these lies over and over and over again. And I guarantee you, I could walk right outside here in Oklahoma City and just drive maybe a couple miles out to the religious suburbs and I could say, is the United States of America allowing other countries to empty insane asylums into this country? They would all say yes, because they sit around and watch Trump's associates on Fox propaganda entertainment television and they start believing this shit. And that's part of the reason why he repeats this over and over again.
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Political Commentator 3
Well, the thing about it is, what just really upsets me the most is people are so willing to dehumanize others and they don't look at the facts. And the facts are coming in on his immigration deportation program like 75% have no criminal records. They're taking people off the streets that are here legally. But the lies are more. They have more of a vitriol, and they stir up hatred more than the truth. And that's the most disappointing thing about all of these Trump voters is they would rather believe in a lie to hate people than the truth for the good of everyone.
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Political Commentator 1
But it's. I don't know that it's a preference that they would rather believe in the lie. I think it's deeper than that. I think these people are inherently racist. And when they see that people that have brown skin are getting deported, they like it. They like the cruelty of it. They like the demonization of those people. And this goes back to slavery, right? And this has been generationally passed on that people that have melanin in their skin are inferior. We are supreme. We are the white people. We know what's best for everybody. And when you know somebody that's super religious and outwardly so, the majority of the time, from my experience, they are horribly, unrepentantly racist. I mean, outwardly so. And so this doesn't surprise me that they believe in this because they see people with melanin in their skin as inferior to them, and they see them as the chosen, superior ones. Right.
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Political Commentator 3
I was going to say absolutely it is. We are the white privileged, so we are better than you.
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Political Commentator 1
All right? And just proving that Trump vacillates between being completely out of it mentally and toying with his authoritarian propaganda, and he vacillates back and forth between the two. He accidentally called his former national security advisor, put up the headline, Trump last month mistakenly called HR McMaster, and upon learning that he was speaking to his former national security advisor rather than his intended recipient, insulted him. And so, you know, here we have Papa Trump, the wannabe dictator authoritarian, who is making a lot of progress in that, in, in that advancement. But he also is not the sharpest knife in the, in the drawer once he gets outside of propagandizing his cult. So this to me, you know, we. He's starting with the two people that used to work for him. He's starting to target them, and that's going to expand a lot more. So if we don't act and act.
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Political Commentator 3
Quickly, well, the enemy within is all of us. Do not believe his propaganda. Do not believe that they are superior. That's all of us. So it may start with them. It's going to trickle down to every single person that fights for democracy.
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Political Commentator 1
Okay? And this graph is going viral all over the Internet. And this is so true. Please pop this up. It starts with Trump doing the double jerk off. I make a stupid decision and then something really bad happens and then he can I convince my followers the problem is now magically solved. I reverse my decision and then it just starts over and over and over. And so many Americans are in this personality cult and go through this cycle, wash, rinse, repeat, wash, rinse, repeat over and over and over. And it's just such a dangerous, weak mindset that people are aligned behind the 78 year old man who actively dehumanizes other human beings and feeds that dehumanization to his Christian base. They chew on it, they like it, they have a cigarette after because that hate feels so good to them. And yet in their personal lives, you know, they can be nice to their families and as long as they're at their Bible study or whatever. But we have a real problem that we have tens of millions of Americans that actively engage in hating and dehumanizing people with melanin in their skin. And if you studied the American history from the inception, it makes perfect sense. But what are they trying to do? Whitewash the history? And then if you call a white American racist for believing racist things, then they're like, oh, that's your only complaint. And so it's just, we have a real, just a absolute problem. And this is a perfect storm for this man to come in and charm these horrible people with all of this racist propaganda.
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Political Commentator 3
They like it. And here's the thing, they're racist, they're homophobic, they're going after trans, they're going after lgbtq, they're going after women because they are misogynistic. Nobody is safe under this administration unless you are white, male and a billionaire. That's it, that's the list.
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Political Commentator 1
And you know, this is what authoritarians they always go after. They go after the press, they go after women, they go after marginalized groups like the LGBTQ plus, they go after the press. And this is what he's doing right now. And here is a case in point. When I showed you the cycle that everybody goes through with Trump, that he creates a problem, solves the problem, all of that. Here is a case in point to that. Here's Trump after he wink, wink, told his billionaire friends by right now, I'm about to put a 90 day pause on it. Here's what he says that evening from the Oval.
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Political Commentator 2
What happened today, I don't know if it's still there. You know, this is looked an hour ago but we're up like close to 3,000 points. Nobody's ever seen a day like that. I think that's a record, isn't it, fellas? Definitely. It's not a have a record like that after watching, but because the geniuses of the world, they get it.
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Political Commentator 1
Okay, so here he is sitting there with four billionaires behind him. Four billionaires in his administration. He's talking about the 3,000 points that went up to the levels they were before this insane tariff play, which is actually down from the Biden economy. And he's trying to take credit for a completely manufactured crisis. And he wants, his long term goal is to de legitimize the American economy so that he can own it the way Putin owns his economy. And I want to remind all the billionaires that are obeying in advance, the same thing happened in Russia and the oligarchs obeyed in advance and guess where they are now? They're fucking dead. And that's how this ends for you. So this is a 911 houses on fire situation in these Billionaires, as always, are so short sighted, but not the billionaire women that you've seen come out and defend the First Amendment and not bend an inch.
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Political Commentator 3
Well, it's interesting. He's got these four billionaires that have all been sitting there saying how brilliant the tariffs were. Oh, he's playing a 5D chess. He just knows everything about the art of the deal. He had to go back on his own word with zero negotiation and zero concessions by other countries because he was breaking the global economy. So do not sit there and piss down my leg and tell me it's raining. And these people that believe it because they're racist and cruel, it makes me insane. It. I don't know how you fix people that like cruelty. I don't know how you fix people that don't go and find agency to look at the facts because he is running our country into the ground and he thinks it's cute. He likes it.
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Political Commentator 1
And I think you just tapped into something right there. Pumps. Because if they acknowledge that something is wrong with Trump, they have to acknowledge that something is wrong with them for finding the space to vote for him in their hearts and in their minds. And so that's why his cult is so powerful. Because acknowledging that he is a fuck up and morally depraved would be a big reveal for the triple Trumpers of the world. And I don't know that they have the emotional intelligence or the emotional grit to have such an enlightening conversation with themselves. Okay, we're on our way to 1 million subs. Please subscribe and we will see you all later.