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[heyitsmike]

So how much does Tara Reade help Trump?

It allows him to relitigate the Kavanaugh hearings, which was the single most important factor in the GOP picking up three Senate seats in 2018.

And this time the base will be even more pissed off about it.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Yeah, I think at this point it's not going to change anyone's minds a whole lot on the election for President. I think anyone who was going to vote had already made up their minds for Trump, #BlueNoMatterWho, or abstaining by the time Biden's rape train really came into the station. Biden's, or rather whoever they sub in for him once he's finally allowed to fall over, numbers won't alter significantly.

The place this is really going to hit is in the more general Republican/Democrat divide. The absolute and open hypocrisy the Democrats are displaying from the top down, not just congress and the media, but their more outspoken voters just outright saying "I don't give a FUCK if he's raped anyone, he's not Trump!" That's where it's going to start pushing some of the undecideds away from the Democrats or motivating more to come out for the Republicans. The presidential election won't be affected as much, but the trickle-down effect on the more contentious and swing elections will be more pronounced. The left's gotten tunnel visioned on the Presidential battle and is setting themselves up to lose the wider war instead.

 

[Jason "Qriist" Close]

The allegations are starting to become more serious now. A neighbor recently revealed Reade told her that Biden raped her in 1993.

Seriously, I hope Trump brings Reade to the debates like he did with Clinton’s

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/former-neighbor-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4%3famp

Oh snap, seems Kamala Harris might be forced to give a statement on this from a year ago. This is suddenly gaining traction in political twitter. ~As of right now it has 2300 shares.

The story doesn't mention Reade but it does seem like a hard thing to selectively apply.



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Lucy Flores is a person with some actual clout.... but as right now she's shilling for Biden's presidency.

This is pinned:

She acknowledges she is voting for someone she has filed a complaint against.

aaaaand there's the TDS:

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

aaaaand there's the TDS:
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"I will vote for literally anyone that isn't Trump. Also I really don't understand why the DNC just unilaterally picked someone I didn't like."

 

[Section230]

It allows him to relitigate the Kavanaugh hearings, which was the single most important factor in the GOP picking up three Senate seats in 2018.

And this time the base will be even more pissed off about it.

I think you're right that this will be the biggest impact. The dems will gladly be giant hypocrites and/or claim Trump is a rapist even worse than Biden. But they simply cannot defend Kavanaugh's treatment, they can't defend against accusations of hypocrisy, just ignore and mis-characterize them. General anger at the left is what the right wants, more than just hurting Biden.

 

[April Ryan]

So how much does Tara Reade help Trump?

At its very weakest, even if nothing truly comes from this, it still neutralizes one of the lefts favorite tactics. They now can not use 'Trump is a rapist' or any kind of 'Trumps attitude to women' style attacks without it immediately boomeranging on them.

When the best way they can spin it is "well our guy has only been accused of raping one woman" it completely kills one of their primary avenues of attack against Trump, at least on a campaign/attack ad level. Hypocritical scum on twitter will still try, but that will likely only drive even more people away from the democrats.

 

[Shaka Brah]

When the best way they can spin it is "well our guy has only been accused of raping one woman" it completely kills one of their primary avenues of attack against Trump, at least on a campaign/attack ad level. Hypocritical scum on twitter will still try, but that will likely only drive even more people away from the democrats.

Not to mention that Biden has been accused of raping at least 3 women and has been photographed molesting hundreds of women and girls.

 

[Flexo]

Full throated defense of the Left's "drink bleach" meme. We're doubling down on this, folks!

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2020/04/more-on-gnosticism-and-the-myth-of-the-untutored-genius.html

https://archive.li/aRHvb

Spoiler: text w pics

More on Gnosticism and the Myth of the Untutored Genius
 APRIL 27, 2020 BY MARK SHEA
As the whole world saw last Thursday, the World Leader of the Cult of the Untutored Genius favored us all with some recommendations from his gut regarding COVID treatments, while a real doctor had to just sit there and take it:

Scott Dworkin

Dr Birx is all of us right now

https://archive.li/o/aRHvb/https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1253651765720952832

https://archive.li/o/aRHvb/https://twitter.com/funder/status/1253651765720952832



There are several things notable about this amazing performance. The most obvious, and the one immediately picked up on by public health authorities like poor Dr. Birx and countless others, is the syntactic linguini by which, after babbling about using UV radiation through the skin (a good way to get skin cancer) and somehow getting it into the body Trump wound up suggesting to the world that

“I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs.”

The problem, of course, is that when Joe Schmoe hears the words “disinfectant” and, “injection” he thinks this:

And since there are millions of Joe Schmoes out there who believe every word this ignorant dolt says (and immediately acted on it), the public health officials in charge of trying to protect Trump’s base from him had to immediately spring into action to remind people that

“Injecting bleach or disinfectant at the dose required to neutralise viruses in the circulating blood would likely result in significant, irreversible harm and probably a very unpleasant death,” says Rob Chilcott, professor of toxicology at the University of Hertfordshire.”

Similarly, multiple disinfectant manufacturers had to immediately issue press releases desperately warning consumers in Trump’s base in language like:

“As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route),”

I will not belabor this first and most obvious point. Suffice it to say, “Trump is a moron for suggesting that injecting disinfectants is a treatment for COVID. Don’t do that” and let’s move on.
What interests me, in light of our previous discussion of “Gnostics, QANON, COVID Liberty Protests, and the Myth of the Untutored Genius” is the dynamic at work in that video. Trump, like every lazy rich kid who never bothered to learn anything, deeply believes in the Myth of the Untutored Genius. He wants very much to lie to himself that he has a “natural ability” for science that exempts him from having to study, learn, think, have any idea what he is talking about while conferring on him the natural right to speak to experts as a fellow expert. So he very clearly is desperate to be viewed as a peer and a colleague of the real doctors in that room as he casually babble, heedless of the audience of millions he commands. He throws out these stupid brain farts as though he is a fellow medical expert in a consultation with people who all know what they are talking about. Birx has to endure this jackass’ braying because his power insulates him from her being able to scream, “YOU ARE AN ASS!” He lies that she agrees with him, forcing her to tell the White House to issue an extraordinary statement that No She Does Not.
And then the medical community has to scramble to make sure that the people who see him as the infallible oracle of truth and real doctors as the evil Deep State Medical Establishment do not act on his brain farts and start self-medicating with Lysol.
Meanwhile, the Right Wing Lie Machine and the Cult on social media then set to work defending him. The defenses tend to fall into multiple, mutually contradictory lies that the Cult manages to believe all at once. (In what follows, every quote I give is a real one from a Trump defender on social media.)
There is the “Trump did not say what you just clearly heard him say with your own two ears. FAKE NEWS!” defense:

CLAIM: President Donald Trump suggested injecting people with disinfectant to cure coronavirus.
VERDICT: False. Trump was speaking generally about new information about sunlight, heat, and disinfectant killing the virus

To be fair, Breitbart, which reflexively published the above lie and then got caught with its pants down when Trump then lied that he was being “sarcastic” (whatever that means) then published a retraction. But countless others repeated the lie anyway:

“Why put this stupid shit on here. Taking his words out of context. Fake news”
***
“Maybe you guys should watch the whole interview totally taken out of context”
***
“You are more of the problem than the Liberal media and Fake news.”

There is the “Trump Speaks the Language of the Hidden Gnosis” defense, in which the words he actually used are redefined to mean something totally different:

“He was doing a triple axle blindfolded in word gymnastics during that segment and what he said and meant were not the same.”
***
“Sure, Trump said ‘disinfectant.’ But he really meant ‘antiviral.'”
***
“He didn’t really mean inject disinfectants. He meant science should find something that is safe to inject that works **like** a disinfectant. But he was brainstorming and got his words jumbled. You know what he really meant!”
***
Trump used the word “inject,” but what he meant was using a process — which he left “medical doctors” to define — in which patients’ lungs might be cleared of the virus, given new knowledge about its response to light and other factors.
***
“We all know what he meant. He’s not talking about bleach. He means vitamins, antibiotics, stuff like that. Why you alway’s gotta be twisting his words???”
***
“He was talking about killing the virus indoors with Artificial Sunlight and disinfectant”

There is the “Trump’s grasp of medicine is far beyond that of mere laity” defense:

“But maybe this could work. We use poisons all the time to kill sickness. What do you think chemo is? Why are you anti-science?”
***
“He was referring to the future of medicine.
We inject lots of poison in our bodies for treatments. Or use friggin radiation to kill cells.”
***
“He’s alluding to the fact that since there are things that naturally kill the virus on the outside, then there must be something that can do the same thing on the inside.”

There are the “He’s just asking questions!” and the “We will bury you!/Might makes right!” defenses”:

There are the “Urging ignorant people to kill themselves self-medicating is a small price to pay for the spiteful joy of upsetting liberals” defenses:

“Just trolling the #FakeNewsMedia and they took the bait hook line and sinker playing them like a fiddle! #EnemyOfThePeople #CNN #MAGA #KAG4VR #Trump #realamerica”

There is the “I Googled something for five seconds once and I can confirm that Trump has a natural instinct for science equal to years of actual education” defense:

***
” He has the right idea just like we do to cancer cells, the media just has to make it look bad. He thinks out loud. We destroy and disinfect illnesses in so many ways. O2 chambers, high vitamin c infusions which worked all over the world. I am not king everything but this i get!”

There is the “Critics of injecting disinfectant are death-hungry liberal killjoys who fear a cure will make Trump look like the genius he is” defense:

“You liberals are just so mad that there might be something that works!”

There is the “I will die for spite!” defense:

“ I rather inject myself with any chemical than vote for Sleepy Joe!! #TRUMP2020 #PROVERBS 23:9!!”

There is the “I can’t hear myself describing Trump’s base perfectly” defense:

“You have to be a gigantic psychopath or criminally stupid to listen to this video of Trump talking about experimental use of ultraviolet light therapy and somehow think he’s encouraging people to inject Clorox or Tide Pods. Gotta be nuts to make that leap.”

There is the “People are Mean H8ers for expecting him to make sense and he did not say what you heard him say” defense:

“He didn’t suggest that anyone inject themselves with disinfectant, but that was an odd thing to say. I think he meant disinfecting the body in some way and he miscommunicated that idea.”
***

There is the “Trump is a genius playing 10-Dimensional Chess whose mental plane of existence far surpasses that of mortals” defense:

“Trump’s wonderful because he knows how to think outside the box.”

There is the “He was just joking” defense:

“If you inject it because of a off the wall joke the president said I call that natural selection.”
***
“Oh ok i wouldnt think so but everybody keeps trying to say that…..and even if he did im sure it was kidding anyway”

There is the “He never specifically said what kind of disinfectant people should inject, so that makes it all fine” defense:

“In any case he never said inject Lysol or drink bleach. It was a question to the doctors about somehow disinfecting the body from the inside either with intense light or some other way because the virus is devastating when it gets to the lungs.”

There is the “What really matters is not people injecting themselves with poison but your mean tone in objecting to that!” defense:

“What would be nice to see is for comments about elected officials and all those in authority over us to be gracious, loving and Biblical.
I’m pretty sure calling Trump and all his supporters stupid doesn’t meet that criteria.”

There is the “The real sin here is our failure to understand Trump’s style” defense:

“Do we and the media have a responsibility to adjust our hearing and reporting in consideration of his different style?”

What unites all these defenses is gnosticism.
The Cult above is united by one conviction: the deep belief that a man barren of intellect, with less than no knowledge of what he is talking about, bloated with exactly the sort of dangerous, rumor-filled, garble-witted pseudo-intuition that is worse than blank unawareness, has just as much right–indeed more right–than the stoopid “so-called experts” to barf out his idiotic suggestions and prescriptions and ipsi dixits that will help hurt and kill innocents all over the world when they are acted upon.
The Cult does this, I repeat, because they, like he, desperately believe the Myth of the Untutored Genius and they wish they were him. They live in the American dream world in which each person is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, as well as the Gnostic dream and in which they possess the Hidden Knowledge kept from the Smart with their fancy educations.
The thing is, this imbecile gets to say and do whatever his gut tells him because he is cocooned by money and power from ever facing consequences for his reckless stupidity.
The trouble is, his Cult of defenders are not, for the most part, cocooned by money and power. To be sure, a few are. Hannity, Ingraham, Limbaugh and a few others in the Right Wing Lie Machine are cocooned for the moment (though FOX is now nervously starting to realize that they may be facing a tsunami of wrongful death lawsuits from the brainwashed audience members who listened to the lies about COVID and were injured and killed as a result).

Fox News Executive Tries To Rein In Stars As They Cheer On Anti-Lockdown Rallies
listen
3:47
© 2020 npr

But the ordinary MAGA cultist is not cocooned at all. When they act on his stupid pronouncements, they suffer for it. Inject disinfectant and you die. Join the mob of fools at the anti-lockdown rally and you run a very high chance of contracting the disease. Cheer him at a Nuremburg rally in February when he calls the Pandemic a hoax and a month later your IRA is in ruins and you are out of work and he is stealing your tax money to give it to his cronies.
And he could not care less.
The solution to this is not more belief in the Secret Knowledge and the Hidden History of Our Time. It is exactly that kind of stupid gnosticism that got the Cult where it is. Doubling down and repeating will not fix it.
Repenting is what will fix it. In this case, if you are a Cultist like those above, bent on defending him to the end, that means facing the fact that your Special Intuition and your gut and your common sense and your supposed insight and your Google search do not trump the hard work of going to school, doing the work, and learning what you are talking about.
It means facing the fact that you have been more ready to spend hours, days, and years defending an ignorant moron than to dismissing his dangerous prattle and listen to competent doctors.
And it means facing the fact that the reason you have done that for four years is that you cannot bear to humble yourself before the plain truth that you were wrong to support him and have been wrong to defend him 24/7/365 since then.
You don’t have to die for this imbecile and you don’t have to offer others as human sacrifices to his towering narcissistic stupidity. If you are a member of his Cult, walk away. Be free. Stop defending stupid lies. Listen to competent medical experts, not an ignorant lying moron who does not care if you live or die or the ignorant lying morons who will literally tell any lie to defend him.
As a Catholic Christian, I would add that Jesus, not Trump, is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Deprogram from the Cult of Trump getting acquainted (or re-acquainted) with Jesus. Trump is nearly his polar opposite.

Do not be mismated with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? ¶ What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
“I will live in them and move among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
¶ Therefore come out from them,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch nothing unclean;
then I will welcome you,
¶ And I will be a father to you,
and you shall be my sons and daughters,
says the Lord Almighty.”

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God. (2 Co 6:14–7:1).

EDIT: So it doesn't look like the pics quite copied over right. Does anybody care?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

MSNBC is doing a news report on how Trump won’t take responsibility for telling people to drink bleach.
This is the world we live in.

 

[Cast Iron Pan]

Full throated defense of the Left's "drink bleach" meme. We're doubling down on this, folks!

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2020/04/more-on-gnosticism-and-the-myth-of-the-untutored-genius.html

https://archive.li/aRHvb

Spoiler: text w pics

More on Gnosticism and the Myth of the Untutored Genius
 APRIL 27, 2020 BY MARK SHEA
As the whole world saw last Thursday, the World Leader of the Cult of the Untutored Genius favored us all with some recommendations from his gut regarding COVID treatments, while a real doctor had to just sit there and take it:

https://archive.li/o/aRHvb/https://twitter.com/funder/status/1253651765720952832



There are several things notable about this amazing performance. The most obvious, and the one immediately picked up on by public health authorities like poor Dr. Birx and countless others, is the syntactic linguini by which, after babbling about using UV radiation through the skin (a good way to get skin cancer) and somehow getting it into the body Trump wound up suggesting to the world that

The problem, of course, is that when Joe Schmoe hears the words “disinfectant” and, “injection” he thinks this:

And since there are millions of Joe Schmoes out there who believe every word this ignorant dolt says (and immediately acted on it), the public health officials in charge of trying to protect Trump’s base from him had to immediately spring into action to remind people that

Similarly, multiple disinfectant manufacturers had to immediately issue press releases desperately warning consumers in Trump’s base in language like:

I will not belabor this first and most obvious point. Suffice it to say, “Trump is a moron for suggesting that injecting disinfectants is a treatment for COVID. Don’t do that” and let’s move on.
What interests me, in light of our previous discussion of “Gnostics, QANON, COVID Liberty Protests, and the Myth of the Untutored Genius” is the dynamic at work in that video. Trump, like every lazy rich kid who never bothered to learn anything, deeply believes in the Myth of the Untutored Genius. He wants very much to lie to himself that he has a “natural ability” for science that exempts him from having to study, learn, think, have any idea what he is talking about while conferring on him the natural right to speak to experts as a fellow expert. So he very clearly is desperate to be viewed as a peer and a colleague of the real doctors in that room as he casually babble, heedless of the audience of millions he commands. He throws out these stupid brain farts as though he is a fellow medical expert in a consultation with people who all know what they are talking about. Birx has to endure this jackass’ braying because his power insulates him from her being able to scream, “YOU ARE AN ASS!” He lies that she agrees with him, forcing her to tell the White House to issue an extraordinary statement that No She Does Not.
And then the medical community has to scramble to make sure that the people who see him as the infallible oracle of truth and real doctors as the evil Deep State Medical Establishment do not act on his brain farts and start self-medicating with Lysol.
Meanwhile, the Right Wing Lie Machine and the Cult on social media then set to work defending him. The defenses tend to fall into multiple, mutually contradictory lies that the Cult manages to believe all at once. (In what follows, every quote I give is a real one from a Trump defender on social media.)
There is the “Trump did not say what you just clearly heard him say with your own two ears. FAKE NEWS!” defense:

To be fair, Breitbart, which reflexively published the above lie and then got caught with its pants down when Trump then lied that he was being “sarcastic” (whatever that means) then published a retraction. But countless others repeated the lie anyway:

There is the “Trump Speaks the Language of the Hidden Gnosis” defense, in which the words he actually used are redefined to mean something totally different:

There is the “Trump’s grasp of medicine is far beyond that of mere laity” defense:

There are the “He’s just asking questions!” and the “We will bury you!/Might makes right!” defenses”:

There are the “Urging ignorant people to kill themselves self-medicating is a small price to pay for the spiteful joy of upsetting liberals” defenses:



There is the “I Googled something for five seconds once and I can confirm that Trump has a natural instinct for science equal to years of actual education” defense:


There is the “Critics of injecting disinfectant are death-hungry liberal killjoys who fear a cure will make Trump look like the genius he is” defense:

There is the “I will die for spite!” defense:

There is the “I can’t hear myself describing Trump’s base perfectly” defense:

There is the “People are Mean H8ers for expecting him to make sense and he did not say what you heard him say” defense:

There is the “Trump is a genius playing 10-Dimensional Chess whose mental plane of existence far surpasses that of mortals” defense:

There is the “He was just joking” defense:

There is the “He never specifically said what kind of disinfectant people should inject, so that makes it all fine” defense:

There is the “What really matters is not people injecting themselves with poison but your mean tone in objecting to that!” defense:

There is the “The real sin here is our failure to understand Trump’s style” defense:

What unites all these defenses is gnosticism.
The Cult above is united by one conviction: the deep belief that a man barren of intellect, with less than no knowledge of what he is talking about, bloated with exactly the sort of dangerous, rumor-filled, garble-witted pseudo-intuition that is worse than blank unawareness, has just as much right–indeed more right–than the stoopid “so-called experts” to barf out his idiotic suggestions and prescriptions and ipsi dixits that will help hurt and kill innocents all over the world when they are acted upon.
The Cult does this, I repeat, because they, like he, desperately believe the Myth of the Untutored Genius and they wish they were him. They live in the American dream world in which each person is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, as well as the Gnostic dream and in which they possess the Hidden Knowledge kept from the Smart with their fancy educations.
The thing is, this imbecile gets to say and do whatever his gut tells him because he is cocooned by money and power from ever facing consequences for his reckless stupidity.
The trouble is, his Cult of defenders are not, for the most part, cocooned by money and power. To be sure, a few are. Hannity, Ingraham, Limbaugh and a few others in the Right Wing Lie Machine are cocooned for the moment (though FOX is now nervously starting to realize that they may be facing a tsunami of wrongful death lawsuits from the brainwashed audience members who listened to the lies about COVID and were injured and killed as a result).

Fox News Executive Tries To Rein In Stars As They Cheer On Anti-Lockdown Rallies
listen
3:47
© 2020 npr

But the ordinary MAGA cultist is not cocooned at all. When they act on his stupid pronouncements, they suffer for it. Inject disinfectant and you die. Join the mob of fools at the anti-lockdown rally and you run a very high chance of contracting the disease. Cheer him at a Nuremburg rally in February when he calls the Pandemic a hoax and a month later your IRA is in ruins and you are out of work and he is stealing your tax money to give it to his cronies.
And he could not care less.
The solution to this is not more belief in the Secret Knowledge and the Hidden History of Our Time. It is exactly that kind of stupid gnosticism that got the Cult where it is. Doubling down and repeating will not fix it.
Repenting is what will fix it. In this case, if you are a Cultist like those above, bent on defending him to the end, that means facing the fact that your Special Intuition and your gut and your common sense and your supposed insight and your Google search do not trump the hard work of going to school, doing the work, and learning what you are talking about.
It means facing the fact that you have been more ready to spend hours, days, and years defending an ignorant moron than to dismissing his dangerous prattle and listen to competent doctors.
And it means facing the fact that the reason you have done that for four years is that you cannot bear to humble yourself before the plain truth that you were wrong to support him and have been wrong to defend him 24/7/365 since then.
You don’t have to die for this imbecile and you don’t have to offer others as human sacrifices to his towering narcissistic stupidity. If you are a member of his Cult, walk away. Be free. Stop defending stupid lies. Listen to competent medical experts, not an ignorant lying moron who does not care if you live or die or the ignorant lying morons who will literally tell any lie to defend him.
As a Catholic Christian, I would add that Jesus, not Trump, is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Deprogram from the Cult of Trump getting acquainted (or re-acquainted) with Jesus. Trump is nearly his polar opposite.

EDIT: So it doesn't look like the pics quite copied over right. Does anybody care?

The straw man he sets up is rather unimpressive for someone so credentialed and learnid as he paints himself to be. I suppose TDS has a way of twisting a man like that.

This flowery drivel here is particularly laughable:

The Cult above is united by one conviction: the deep belief that a man barren of intellect, with less than no knowledge of what he is talking about, bloated with exactly the sort of dangerous, rumor-filled, garble-witted pseudo-intuition that is worse than blank unawareness, has just as much right–indeed more right–than the stoopid “so-called experts” to barf out his idiotic suggestions and prescriptions and ipsi dixits that will help hurt and kill innocents all over the world when they are acted upon.

You know he felt impressed at his own writing prowess over that exhausting sentence.

Imagine this pompous loaf calling you bloated:


He's very famous!

 

[Flexo]

The straw man he sets up is rather unimpressive for someone so credentialed and learnid as he paints himself to be. I suppose TDS has a way of twisting a man like that.

This flowery drivel here is particularly laughable:


You know he felt impressed at his own writing prowess over that exhausting sentence.

Imagine this pompous loaf calling you bloated:
View attachment 1257970

He's very famous!

something I realized looking at his account and I'm curious if anybody has noticed it elsewhere in the media. Has anyone actually seen CNN or any other news media actually post clips of what President Trump said in this regard? Because I find it interesting that for his remarks being so an unambiguous that nobody is actually bothering to post the actual clip of what he actually said.

 

[Cosmug]

The straw man he sets up is rather unimpressive for someone so credentialed and learnid as he paints himself to be. I suppose TDS has a way of twisting a man like that.

This flowery drivel here is particularly laughable:


You know he felt impressed at his own writing prowess over that exhausting sentence.

Imagine this pompous loaf calling you bloated:
View attachment 1257970

He's very famous!

From the gross looking facial hair to the desperate need to be seen as smart, because only SMART PEOPLE can use big words and run on sentences, this dude is a diet ginger moviebob. That big blob of purple prose boils down to “you should ignore good sense and defer to The Experts who went to The Famous School for your information” because you can’t expect plebeian non-experts to have pattern recognition.

 

[Robert James]

Full throated defense of the Left's "drink bleach" meme. We're doubling down on this, folks!

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2020/04/more-on-gnosticism-and-the-myth-of-the-untutored-genius.html

https://archive.li/aRHvb

Spoiler: text w pics

More on Gnosticism and the Myth of the Untutored Genius
 APRIL 27, 2020 BY MARK SHEA
As the whole world saw last Thursday, the World Leader of the Cult of the Untutored Genius favored us all with some recommendations from his gut regarding COVID treatments, while a real doctor had to just sit there and take it:

https://archive.li/o/aRHvb/https://twitter.com/funder/status/1253651765720952832



There are several things notable about this amazing performance. The most obvious, and the one immediately picked up on by public health authorities like poor Dr. Birx and countless others, is the syntactic linguini by which, after babbling about using UV radiation through the skin (a good way to get skin cancer) and somehow getting it into the body Trump wound up suggesting to the world that

The problem, of course, is that when Joe Schmoe hears the words “disinfectant” and, “injection” he thinks this:

And since there are millions of Joe Schmoes out there who believe every word this ignorant dolt says (and immediately acted on it), the public health officials in charge of trying to protect Trump’s base from him had to immediately spring into action to remind people that

Similarly, multiple disinfectant manufacturers had to immediately issue press releases desperately warning consumers in Trump’s base in language like:

I will not belabor this first and most obvious point. Suffice it to say, “Trump is a moron for suggesting that injecting disinfectants is a treatment for COVID. Don’t do that” and let’s move on.
What interests me, in light of our previous discussion of “Gnostics, QANON, COVID Liberty Protests, and the Myth of the Untutored Genius” is the dynamic at work in that video. Trump, like every lazy rich kid who never bothered to learn anything, deeply believes in the Myth of the Untutored Genius. He wants very much to lie to himself that he has a “natural ability” for science that exempts him from having to study, learn, think, have any idea what he is talking about while conferring on him the natural right to speak to experts as a fellow expert. So he very clearly is desperate to be viewed as a peer and a colleague of the real doctors in that room as he casually babble, heedless of the audience of millions he commands. He throws out these stupid brain farts as though he is a fellow medical expert in a consultation with people who all know what they are talking about. Birx has to endure this jackass’ braying because his power insulates him from her being able to scream, “YOU ARE AN ASS!” He lies that she agrees with him, forcing her to tell the White House to issue an extraordinary statement that No She Does Not.
And then the medical community has to scramble to make sure that the people who see him as the infallible oracle of truth and real doctors as the evil Deep State Medical Establishment do not act on his brain farts and start self-medicating with Lysol.
Meanwhile, the Right Wing Lie Machine and the Cult on social media then set to work defending him. The defenses tend to fall into multiple, mutually contradictory lies that the Cult manages to believe all at once. (In what follows, every quote I give is a real one from a Trump defender on social media.)
There is the “Trump did not say what you just clearly heard him say with your own two ears. FAKE NEWS!” defense:

To be fair, Breitbart, which reflexively published the above lie and then got caught with its pants down when Trump then lied that he was being “sarcastic” (whatever that means) then published a retraction. But countless others repeated the lie anyway:

There is the “Trump Speaks the Language of the Hidden Gnosis” defense, in which the words he actually used are redefined to mean something totally different:

There is the “Trump’s grasp of medicine is far beyond that of mere laity” defense:

There are the “He’s just asking questions!” and the “We will bury you!/Might makes right!” defenses”:

There are the “Urging ignorant people to kill themselves self-medicating is a small price to pay for the spiteful joy of upsetting liberals” defenses:



There is the “I Googled something for five seconds once and I can confirm that Trump has a natural instinct for science equal to years of actual education” defense:


There is the “Critics of injecting disinfectant are death-hungry liberal killjoys who fear a cure will make Trump look like the genius he is” defense:

There is the “I will die for spite!” defense:

There is the “I can’t hear myself describing Trump’s base perfectly” defense:

There is the “People are Mean H8ers for expecting him to make sense and he did not say what you heard him say” defense:

There is the “Trump is a genius playing 10-Dimensional Chess whose mental plane of existence far surpasses that of mortals” defense:

There is the “He was just joking” defense:

There is the “He never specifically said what kind of disinfectant people should inject, so that makes it all fine” defense:

There is the “What really matters is not people injecting themselves with poison but your mean tone in objecting to that!” defense:

There is the “The real sin here is our failure to understand Trump’s style” defense:

What unites all these defenses is gnosticism.
The Cult above is united by one conviction: the deep belief that a man barren of intellect, with less than no knowledge of what he is talking about, bloated with exactly the sort of dangerous, rumor-filled, garble-witted pseudo-intuition that is worse than blank unawareness, has just as much right–indeed more right–than the stoopid “so-called experts” to barf out his idiotic suggestions and prescriptions and ipsi dixits that will help hurt and kill innocents all over the world when they are acted upon.
The Cult does this, I repeat, because they, like he, desperately believe the Myth of the Untutored Genius and they wish they were him. They live in the American dream world in which each person is a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, as well as the Gnostic dream and in which they possess the Hidden Knowledge kept from the Smart with their fancy educations.
The thing is, this imbecile gets to say and do whatever his gut tells him because he is cocooned by money and power from ever facing consequences for his reckless stupidity.
The trouble is, his Cult of defenders are not, for the most part, cocooned by money and power. To be sure, a few are. Hannity, Ingraham, Limbaugh and a few others in the Right Wing Lie Machine are cocooned for the moment (though FOX is now nervously starting to realize that they may be facing a tsunami of wrongful death lawsuits from the brainwashed audience members who listened to the lies about COVID and were injured and killed as a result).

Fox News Executive Tries To Rein In Stars As They Cheer On Anti-Lockdown Rallies
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But the ordinary MAGA cultist is not cocooned at all. When they act on his stupid pronouncements, they suffer for it. Inject disinfectant and you die. Join the mob of fools at the anti-lockdown rally and you run a very high chance of contracting the disease. Cheer him at a Nuremburg rally in February when he calls the Pandemic a hoax and a month later your IRA is in ruins and you are out of work and he is stealing your tax money to give it to his cronies.
And he could not care less.
The solution to this is not more belief in the Secret Knowledge and the Hidden History of Our Time. It is exactly that kind of stupid gnosticism that got the Cult where it is. Doubling down and repeating will not fix it.
Repenting is what will fix it. In this case, if you are a Cultist like those above, bent on defending him to the end, that means facing the fact that your Special Intuition and your gut and your common sense and your supposed insight and your Google search do not trump the hard work of going to school, doing the work, and learning what you are talking about.
It means facing the fact that you have been more ready to spend hours, days, and years defending an ignorant moron than to dismissing his dangerous prattle and listen to competent doctors.
And it means facing the fact that the reason you have done that for four years is that you cannot bear to humble yourself before the plain truth that you were wrong to support him and have been wrong to defend him 24/7/365 since then.
You don’t have to die for this imbecile and you don’t have to offer others as human sacrifices to his towering narcissistic stupidity. If you are a member of his Cult, walk away. Be free. Stop defending stupid lies. Listen to competent medical experts, not an ignorant lying moron who does not care if you live or die or the ignorant lying morons who will literally tell any lie to defend him.
As a Catholic Christian, I would add that Jesus, not Trump, is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Deprogram from the Cult of Trump getting acquainted (or re-acquainted) with Jesus. Trump is nearly his polar opposite.

EDIT: So it doesn't look like the pics quite copied over right. Does anybody care?

"Catholic" See we need to get back to the good old days where we understood the Catholics were awful and we tried to kick them out.

The best part is his argument can be summed up as the average american is too retarted to realize the disefectant that trump is talking about is the UV lights he started the sentence off with. Not that the media has been parroting that he said bleach and the memes said bleach but that it was Trumps fault.

Also love the number of people talking about how UV lights give you cancer and treating it like it's an immediate thing. God forbid if there type finds out about Tanning beds or lord forbid the sun. It always amazes me when these psuedo intelectuals don't seem to have basic understanding as to how the world works.

something I realized looking at his account and I'm curious if anybody has noticed it elsewhere in the media. Has anyone actually seen CNN or any other news media actually post clips of what President Trump said in this regard? Because I find it interesting that for his remarks being so an unambiguous that nobody is actually bothering to post the actual clip of what he actually said.

Remember these are the people that want to ban the airing of his press briefing and insist on cutting back to their panel of "experts" every thirty second when they do.

The last thing they want is to post the full briefing let alone the clip, especially with how much effort they put into this and for once they are getting memes, stolen memes mind you, for their side.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Trump should just post the full transcript with full context and blow these idiots the fuck out already.

 

[Sekirodiealot]

Trump should just post the full transcript with full context and blow these idiots the fuck out already.

Would it matter if he did with those sheeples?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Good fucking grief.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bu...or-corroborates-joe-bidens-accuser-2020-4?amp

It physically pains me to look at that link text, here's an archive:
https://archive.vn/5x3oR

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Good fucking grief.

Ffs, these people need to be tarred and feathered and kicked out of the fucking country.

How goddamn tacky and disgusting can you be.

 

[Cubanodun]

Good fucking grief.

They are this close of outright insulting him on camera for twitter points

 

[Godzilla@1989]

“Believe women whenever it’s a republican!”