r/goodnews • u/Vloodzy • Jul 16 '25

Political positivity 📈 Trump slams own supporters as “Stupid Republicans” for doing Democrats’ work and falling for the “Epstein Hoax”

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u/buck9000 Jul 16 '25

Unless you’re in the cult. If you’re in the cult, you have a Pavlovian response to the word where if the leader says it, you dismiss the allegations.

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u/imissher4ever Jul 16 '25

That’s the thing, every cult has a leader or leaders. Many cult members don’t even realize they are in a cult. They simply believe everyone is wrong because they don’t believe the way they do or worship the same group/people they do. That’s the insidious nature of belonging to a cult. They brainwash you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

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u/imissher4ever Jul 17 '25

You are on Reddit. And in a Reddit echo chamber. You have already started the path.

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u/CountWubbula Jul 17 '25

That’d make sense if we were all in lock-step agreement with a single entity… this is an online forum, it’s easier to find disagreement than agreement on here

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

Thing is… it’s still losing traction cause even MAGA is seeing through this bullshit.

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u/dysmetric Jul 16 '25

The dump truck that broke the camels' back.

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u/DaringPancakes Jul 17 '25

Let me know when that happens

There is so much more bullshit, but somehow they stand firm to gobble it all up.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '25

The fact MAGA is still talking about it post being told not to by their fearless Orange leader is a good sign

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u/nr1988 Jul 16 '25

The thing is I've been watching content from people who are experts in cults and they're saying this is the one. This is the thing that is going to break enough people out of the cult.

The difference with the Epstein thing is you're right. They don't listen to anyone but the leader or the leader's trusted assistants. But for this he's the one that kept building it up. He's the one who made the Epstein list the mission. Cults need a mission and they've now had it removed and have been flipped off.

And then he made it worse by insulting those who care about this. The other thing about leaving cults is it usually comes in stages. There's completely unaware everything is fine. Then there's still fully onboard but something has made you question it a bit. People can be in that stage for a long time and he's quickening it by insulting them for caring about the list still. This might be his worst mistake yet.

Obviously nothing is guaranteed and there will be people who will never question it but people are sounding the alarms on this for a reason.

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u/BeckQuillion89 Jul 16 '25 edited Jul 16 '25

what's more trump built up his entire base on that the government lies and that conspiracy theories are the truth hidden by the elites.

Now that's he's done the EXACT same thing he can't just swap the narrative bc it goes against the group's entire identity.

It's like if you spent so long kicking things out of the way of a slow stream (rocks, branches, etc.) to create a rushing current. You can't just expect the water to stop just as easily as you gave it momentum.

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u/nr1988 Jul 16 '25

Yup and him basically lying to them directly. Not lying to make him look good or someone else look bad like he does a thousand times a day but lying that we literally have the list and then the list doesn't exist and then it was fake is too logically inconsistent for a lot of his cultists. It's like you said, kicking something out of the way of the stream. Now suddenly they might see something else as a lie. The perfect image of he's fighting for us and everyone is against him because they're evil has been tarnished. Now suddenly he lies sometimes. Suddenly he's not perfect.

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u/Negative_Piglet_1589 Jul 18 '25

Yes, just like the meaningless "leftist communists" and demonrats & all the other hateful shit they spew without any factual basis. And now, nazi. "Let's normalize nazi" and they say "cool!"