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Uhhh ... I know there's so much going on that it's hard to keep it all fresh in one's mind
(and that's part of Trump's grand plan ... dump so much bullshit that it's impossible to focus on one specific turd)
but this was from only ten days ago, when we were talking about the pipe bomber in this thread —
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40 years this week since Jonestown. Representative Jackie Speier (D-California) was one of Leo Ryan's aides and has written a memoir of the day - she was badly wounded by Jones' attack at the airstrip and barely survived. Worth reading this excerpt on politico.com. One of the comments is particularly and terrifyingly apt.
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I was only a child when the Jonestown massacre happened. I remember quite clearly watching the horror of it all on TV.

But there is one part of the story that has faded in time. And it is an important lesson to learn.

We use the phrase "drinking the Kool Aid" as a reference to Jonestown. It is a way to attack and dismiss someone as being foolish and gullible.

But in the wake of the massacre, many of the friends and families of the victims came forward. They said that they knew the victims well and these people were not gullible fools - but ordinary, reasonable people.

Then psychologists explained that a person could be completely sensible and rational. However, if they are isolated and steadily fed paranoia and propaganda, then their whole perspective becomes terribly skewed. Their basic sense of judgement and rationality becomes lost.

This is exactly what is happening with MAGA crowd these days. They may not be in some compound in the middle of the jungle - but they do *only* listen to Fox News and Breitbart. Thanks to the internet, they *only* talk to right wingers who think exactly like they do. They refuse to expose themselves to other points of view.

Their isolation may be virtual, but it is still real. Their echo chamber is self created. And paranoia and propaganda are all part of their daily diet.

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Trumpstown...

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"Oh sorry, I thought you were someone else."

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You have to love it.

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Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Ivanka! Oh, she is a naughty person, and she must pay the penalty -- and here in Castle Anthrax, we have but one punishment...

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Okay, well let's see...

So far this week, our President has disgraced his office by publicly attacking and smearing a highly decorated military hero, employing junior high school level toilet humor to vulgarly "misspell" the name of the incoming House Intelligence Committee Chairman, and siding with a brutal authoritarian regime over our own intelligence agencies regarding the murder of a journalist and permanent US resident...(and smearing him in the process)

Andi it's only Tuesday... :?
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Hey, it's a short week because of the holiday, and he's gotta get all this shit done quickly...so there's time to gestate the turkey!
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