MAGA rhetoric is not based in politics, reason or American values. It is hate verbalized, aiming to distract us from truth and drag us into chaos. @therickwilson.bsky.social answers your questions about MAGA, the future, and much more on the latest episode of the LP Podcast: youtu.be/ot-qr0En66Y?... - ThreadSky

lincolnproject.us • 83 days ago

MAGA rhetoric is not based in politics, reason or American values. It is hate verbalized, aiming to distract us from truth and drag us into chaos. @therickwilson.bsky.social answers your questions about MAGA, the future, and much more on the latest episode of the LP Podcast: https://youtu.be/ot-qr0En66Y?si=Ap3qfcTUizanOKqd

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dyannqc.bsky.social•83 days ago

The whole world knows it!!! The killing question : WHAT are you doing to STOP them! It’s ok to tell the same truth as often that you can but DO something because they’re still going on and on !

phoebe1313.bsky.social•83 days ago

They’re sadists

johndutton3726.bsky.social•72 days ago

I think your suggestion should be put in consideration.Why would you suggest that,Send in a direct message so we can converse about your suggestion.

bigbronerd.bsky.social•82 days ago

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

drettibmed.bsky.social•83 days ago

https://youtu.be/HMguSl8PHS4?si=9B8XZd61RbB5YYmX

wayneh0813.bsky.social•83 days ago

Finally learned how to pronounce Juche. I’ve always seen it written, but never spoken. Always thought it was a hard U and a silent E.

emeraldyne.bsky.social•83 days ago

📌

sniffit.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yep. This is why they are so thoroughly abusing the trans community and are about to start abusing undocumented people. They commit constant human rights violating atrocities with one hand so that the moral outrage will distract from the class war they're conducting with the other hand.

zargon2112.bsky.social•81 days ago

💯

portilla.bsky.social•83 days ago

Chaos, corruption, crisis, collapse.

annleftwapo.bsky.social•83 days ago

Go to the Comments section on any FOX news story about Trump. It wasn’t about grocery prices, gas prices, the economy, or any other bullshit as a reason for Trump’s win. It is completely about the hatred of women, non-whites, LGBTQ, etc.

chakanawe.bsky.social•83 days ago

You don't say? It's been wash, rinse, repeat since the 80s! 👇

zakinsd.bsky.social•83 days ago

I won’t click on the fox pages, but I’ll take your word for it. I haven’t seen anything else that changes my mind

mytfinn.bsky.social•83 days ago

The only thing these “christians” are good at is forgiving trespasses. So many effing trespasses!

nobuenoatall.bsky.social•83 days ago

I think the moderate people who voted for Trump don't understand this one thing: the cruelty is the point.

clevernickname23.bsky.social•83 days ago

They understand it. They just want to pretend not to.

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes, they want women to be barefoot and pregnant. Non-white are treated as “the help”. Immigrants are used and deported. LGBT+ are shunned and recloseted (if that’s a word). The hatred is overwhelming blatant.

mreddie8976.bsky.social•83 days ago

“Barefoot and pregnant”…

…and silent!

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

dpc1zspeaking.bsky.social•83 days ago

Sure is

willsonc.bsky.social•83 days ago

Did anyone expect anything different from white christians? That’s what trump uncovered - the fake pious Jesus-loving bull shit. I actually believed that christians meant it with that do unto others bs. I knew in 2016 that white christians are a hate group.

brokenwing2005.bsky.social•82 days ago

Thought you might enjoy this Sermon on Christian Nationalism by James Talerico, a TX state representative.

https://youtu.be/Blph_2RSBno?si=8-qTMeig9lOvgXx1

willsonc.bsky.social•82 days ago

Thanks. I wish there were more real christians like him.

brokenwing2005.bsky.social•82 days ago

Following you. Follow back?

brokenwing2005.bsky.social•82 days ago

Glad you liked it. My sentiments EXACTLY.

brokenwing2005.bsky.social•82 days ago

Christian Nationalism is a hate group.

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

I concur, not that I am very religious. However, Jesus said cloth the naked, heal the sick, house the homeless. A lot of modern day Christians live far from these words. So sad.

willsonc.bsky.social•83 days ago

Today’s white christians stormed the capital and beat cops with their Jesus flags. And the rest of the christians cheered. They cheered separation of children. Christians are some evil mf

brokenwing2005.bsky.social•82 days ago

They’re Christians IN NAME ONLY. Whenever I see “Christian” on a profile, I know they’re a hypocrite.

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

Not so Christian!!!

apostatenerd.bsky.social•83 days ago

Also said hate and kill eachother, he matters more than the poor, and to kill anyone who doesn't worship him in a lake of fire

stacy125.bsky.social•83 days ago

The lost Biden voters. The ones who decided ‘people tell me Republicans are better at the economy’ (even though there’s no proof; just propaganda) voted for Trump. They likely weren’t Fox watchers but they also didn’t bother researching the bat-shit crazy things said in the ads they saw.

oakbearnca.bsky.social•83 days ago

The reason why the LGBT community voted against Trump by the largest margin of any presidential candidate in history.

standup2p.bsky.social•83 days ago

Trans women are completely off the chart as owners of challenge coins from elite military divisions. When they were men they fought so hard to prove their macho. SWAT, rough necking, fire fighting etc.

carolesioux.bsky.social•83 days ago

They have had default top dog status for hundreds of years. They ain’t sharing

skey3.bsky.social•82 days ago

I think a lot voted against what the far left has been pushing and wanting to see them lose vs actual policies. Something to think about for next cycle. This way isn’t working

floridajohn.bsky.social•83 days ago

I'm telling you when I worked the polling place I walked accross the street to where MAGA was set up, as a Veteran for Harris, to talk about P25's plans for cutting benefits, and they didn't want to hear it. Instead they asked me how I could support gays and trans in the military. Gaslighting.

floridajohn.bsky.social•83 days ago

I told him that I hadn't even thought about it, that the trans community is less than one percent of the population and I didn't think it even mattered in the military. They insisted showed me pictures of military members in uniform who are trans. It was so important to them. Makes no sense to me.

heatherturiello.bsky.social•77 days ago

It’s “important” to them because they are told what to think and feel. I also like to say…”don’t you wish you had a party that let you think for yourself? Doesn’t it get stuffy always being told what to do?”

lizzie-in-ca.bsky.social•77 days ago

They are being told what to think and feel and they do it because it aligns with how they want to think and feel. They have agency here.

bterrier71.bsky.social•83 days ago

Wife was in an uber. Driver was Peruvian and recently
got US citizenship. Said voting for Trump as Ds want to make her son gay.

We’re doomed

ladee-fkn-da421.bsky.social•83 days ago

That makes me sad that people aren't more intelligent than that. You cannot make some1 gay. My retired veteran Republican brother voted for Harris/Walz because he understands the threat to democracy the other guy is. He's not homophobic but he hated the commercial about her & trans people.

blake105.bsky.social•83 days ago

Democrats have to realize that immigrants aren’t victims and we really don’t need to come to their rescue.

michaelwild.bsky.social•83 days ago

Deport him

kbc3250.bsky.social•83 days ago

This is the power of weaponizing even small-scale social issues. Republicans started doing this a very long time ago and it has been astonishingly successful for them over the long haul.

georgekaplannbnw.bsky.social•83 days ago

It's easier to plait fog, than deal with people who've been brainwashed.

notgoingback99.bsky.social•83 days ago

Not just Fox. Virtually every MSM outlet has had an account on X since forever. They've had 8+ years of experience w/ this toxic waste right in their own feeds. All of them. Yet night after night when they rolled the cameras across the networks it was The Economy and Biden is Old and Both Sides.

darryl-revok.bsky.social•83 days ago

Those are farm bots running a phony controlled opposition "illusion of consensus" scam. MSNBC types do the opposite side of things. The right and left do not "truly" exist.It's more of a fabricated narrative to keep us all at each other's throats and chasing our tails
Look up "controlled opposition

ladee-fkn-da421.bsky.social•83 days ago

That's food for thought🤔

darryl-revok.bsky.social•83 days ago

Thank you.

thesurleyshirley.bsky.social•83 days ago

Hate is a powerful motivator.

bhdeal.bsky.social•83 days ago

That’s a lot of hate out there.

lmals.bsky.social•83 days ago

I read something this morning in a Dkos piece. The suggestion was to stop reacting to the trolls comments online. They FEED off of driving the kind people of this world nuts. Just don’t respond to them. They thrive solely on the hate, if we stop responding, eventually they’ll turn on each other.

brokenwing2005.bsky.social•83 days ago

I think that’s what’s happening on x Since so many Dems left.

jeanmagsmarie.bsky.social•83 days ago

I totally get the point but I’m enjoying telling the men trolls to shut up and make me a sandwich. 🙂

lmals.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yep. Completely get that. I’m thinking by Not engaging it allows WS to focus on the Real problems.

donnastanleydieter.bsky.social•83 days ago

It's a good episode, listen to it.

jtrott.bsky.social•83 days ago

Evangelical leaders tied Salvation to support for Trumpism, in pursuit of Christian White Nationalism.

They have imbued the Maga with a sacrament they will never relinquish:

Permission to Hate…Granted!

Is it a sin to lie for Donald?
Is it a sin to NOT for Donald?

With Jesus in your mouth.

tadhgs.bsky.social•83 days ago

You're spot on! MAGA rhetoric thrives on division, trading substance for spectacle. It's a calculated distraction to polarize and deflect from pressing issues. True American values demand reasoned debate and unity, not the chaos of empty provocations...

rsmee.bsky.social•83 days ago

Spot on. The constant barrage of bad decisions & trolling from Trump et al is meant to demoralize us, to make us give up. We cannot.

vajeedali.bsky.social•83 days ago

If MAGA could listen to his NBC interview with some focus (if they are even capable of it), it would expose him! He said he cannot guarantee anything.. can you people who elected him believe this… so get ready for higher costs of ‘groceries’..he invented the word..imagine. Mum’s notes on the fridge?

choochoo-bob.bsky.social•83 days ago

MAGA is just mindless hate, grievance and retribution.

vajeedali.bsky.social•83 days ago

that, milk, egg and greens are called groceries! And he made Obamacare a success! A few sentences ago he had said it was the worst thing to happen to Americans..He is like a mad train going down the tunnel. frightens the shit out of me… what the fuck is this Orang going to do this time..some may be-

vajeedali.bsky.social•83 days ago

lieve he has nothing to lose. His last term. So will he royally fuck up the system..who will lose? He doesn’t know trade he thinks tariffs will scare people and not affect him..he quoted tariffs he applied to China nothing happened to inflation or economy. Untrue. I will leave economists to counter

vajeedali.bsky.social•83 days ago

but, it’s 😱. His handshake with the Moron Macron was unbelievable. It was almost like he was trying to muscle him , what large hands he has! . It came across as the school bully meeting the student leader in public! One would assume he would mellow with age.. he is no guarantee to be there for you!

vajeedali.bsky.social•83 days ago

“I cannot guarantee anything, I cannot guarantee tomorrow!” This may turn into his epitaph.. no guarantees for anything people.. enjoy the next 4.. there’s no guarantee we will live through this… 🥴

choochoo-bob.bsky.social•83 days ago

frambley1.bsky.social•83 days ago

I would add that it also functions as a distraction. When they do things that cannot be ignored it allows them to achieve what they actually want to do with a lot less scrutiny.

aguyyouknow.bsky.social•83 days ago

So where does Musk (Muskism? Musk-ateers?) fit into this? Is that the ideology and rhetoric of "critical thinkers" who find MAGA too lower class or mainstream?

astrocalvin.bsky.social•83 days ago

In the USA there is no “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. Like Iran or Russia, the people now serve the interests of the governing elite. Failing to satisfy an individual’s needs won’t matter because there is a greater goal.

Watch Elon Musk hide the theft. Mars anyone?

astrocalvin.bsky.social•81 days ago

No energy security for New York and Michigan? Suck it up buttercup. It's necessary that you sacrifice for the greater MAGA vision.

Serve the governing elite.

Complaining is treason.

rskist.bsky.social•83 days ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/elon-musk-meets-republicans-talk-doge-spending-cuts-rcna183058

quilterscomfort.bsky.social•57 days ago

Internalizes hate is death.

wtsherman.bsky.social•83 days ago

MAGA = hate of what’s American, and love of what’s destructive + fascist. It’s an inside job now. 🤷🏼‍♂️

jossie-the-cat.bsky.social•83 days ago

It is never about the subject, or even the solution, but it has ALLWAYS been about how much H8 they can get out of their base.

forfooksake.bsky.social•82 days ago

Fox News 'Trump cabinet staffing agency'!

jamielou.bsky.social•83 days ago

We can play too.

artweber.bsky.social•83 days ago

Trump's end goal is to transform our entire government into an oligarchy working for HIM, *not* the American people. He gets there by hiring loyalists and sowing chaos, doubt, fear, and hate. Trump is doing Putin's work FOR him.

Resist!
https://usa.gov/elected-officials
https://indivisible.org
https://aclu.org

politicalamericans.bsky.social•83 days ago

Exactly.

It was NEVER about the economy.

https://politicalamericans.com/heritage-foundation-report-price-of-freedom-is-1-05/

chipchart.bsky.social•83 days ago

I hear the same thing from my 10 year old grandson.... He says it better

capybara74.bsky.social•83 days ago

Accurate

dbethdoinggreat.bsky.social•83 days ago

Looks like a tRumper wet dream.

capybara74.bsky.social•83 days ago

Also accurate.

wildoneness.bsky.social•83 days ago

Thank you for the podcast with Timothy Snyder. I was inspired by your discussion!

lordhavmercyy.bsky.social•83 days ago

MAGA is just a symptom of a larger disease. Created by billionaire wannabe kings gathering uneducated, desperate, fearful, angry people. Removing their empathy, convincing them of fake problems (or in some cases making those problems real) and pointing them at their fellow Americans.

whitneyed.bsky.social•83 days ago

What in the world did he mean at the start of the show by saying that morally there was no difference between Trump and Obama??

jimmar1.bsky.social•83 days ago

There will be manufactured chaos after Jan 20, 25. This is the way a dictator consolidates power. All the monster appointments that get past the Senate will begin to destroy constitutional government.

portilla.bsky.social•83 days ago

And there will be some sort of manufactured event to ‘suspend the constitution’.

kimd3.bsky.social•83 days ago

It is meant to drag us, not into chaos, but into what looks like rigidly and brutally enforced order. It is a response to change and uncertainty that is met with fear which breeds hatred. It is the language spoken to the pitchfork wielding mob to whip them into a frenzy.

armyinfsgtvet.bsky.social•83 days ago

I agree. We've been saying that and hoped by now other's with big forums would help spread that. We can't depend on the corporate media, and we need to build the new coalition for 2026. And to stop the current trends the best we can, before many of us vets and seniors lose our lives.

alfrikr.bsky.social•83 days ago

You threw off the shackles and taxation/oppression from King George III without representation and the British Parliament. Your four fathers founded the greatest country, a beacon of hope... please don't let Trump destroy this ... x

indigocricket.bsky.social•83 days ago

Absolutely cruelty is the point.

misadventur3.bsky.social•82 days ago

Russia has been waging a subtle war on America and other Western Democracies since the end of WW2. It's past time that we recognize our jeopardy.

americanwoman2.bsky.social•83 days ago

Grifting is all they know
It comes from somewhere down below.
The slimy snakes manipulate
Fuel Anger
Fuel Hate
We must #Resist in every way
Stand for democracy, come what may.

#ResitancePoetry

grekman.bsky.social•83 days ago

A close family members main reason for engagement is to "own the libtards". When asked for an alternative policy, they say, that's not my job.

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

What has happened to the sensible republicans? At one time, Republicans and Democrats could actually work together, at one time. There was give and take but they worked to make our lives better. I mean, Liz Cheney saw the light, as have many others. It’s a shame that the rest of the party hasn’t.

cbowdidge.bsky.social•83 days ago

They tried. Kamala had over 100 Republican endorsements. They were outnumbered by MAGA

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes, unfortunately MAGA is like parasite on the republican side.

georgekaplannbnw.bsky.social•83 days ago

They weren't strong enough, plus ultimately, were outnumbered.

They need to re-group and formtheir own party.

cheferic1970.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes, but until they do, I will gladly welcome them into my camp.

georgekaplannbnw.bsky.social•83 days ago

It would have a greater pulling power for moderate republcan voters if they did so, as opposed to being seen as 'RINOs'.

That, assuming there is another 'free and fair' election, would weaken the MAGA scum.

saintmaker.bsky.social•83 days ago

For the MAGA mob, the people they hate can’t suffer enough to fill the holes in their MAGA hearts. Sadism is an ever unfulfilled addiction.

maehemm2017.bsky.social•83 days ago

💙💙💙

cork-74.bsky.social•83 days ago

The “Truth” dragging us into chaos, and enabling this Trump/MAGA insanity…

Is that Trickle Down Economics, which even “decent” conservatives still believe in…

Has transferred so much wealth to so few people…

Americans will vote for ANYONE promising something different.

Even fascists.

samsnoop.bsky.social•83 days ago

Mr Wilson, you scare me sometimes. 🤣🤣

vovo2dcr.bsky.social•83 days ago

It takes intelligence to reason

notdontrmp.bsky.social•83 days ago

MAGA rhetoric isn’t politics, folks—it’s pure hate, designed to DISTRACT from the TRUTH and DRAG America into chaos. We need to stay focused, fight lies with FACTS, and stand up for REAL American values. Chaos isn’t leadership, and MAGA is the proof.

citizen4longterm.bsky.social•83 days ago

And in the face of manufactured chaos from:
Rising prices because of tariffs,
Disorganized Roundup of immigrants, random release of J6'er, etc. Blue collar workers and low information people will trade
Freedom for security.

rogerbane.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yeah, that is my main bitch about MAGA and Fascism in general, it is neither progressive or conservative or even reactionary. It is Nihilistic.

brandice.bsky.social•83 days ago

He is absolutely right

czeckmate2024.bsky.social•83 days ago

Well-stated

cuttybrown.bsky.social•83 days ago

aka propaganda

funnybone1.bsky.social•83 days ago

You are spot on. MAGA is just spewing hate. Its why I do not attempt to conversate with them or bother trying to hear them out.

Im a simple man. I see a MAGA person, I block and move on. Don’t give them space to spew their hate.

notinterested1.bsky.social•83 days ago

The United States Population Elected Trump, everything now , the Monday morning Quarterbacking, or hand wringing, is like watching the poker game in one flew over the Cuckoo’s nest, while at the same time wondering how all the planets Retards live in one Country!

bertfoxson.bsky.social•83 days ago

This is not new. It is all the standard playbook of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Trump is not smart enough to create original ideas.

shirlsurely.bsky.social•83 days ago

Until Trump, I was truly unaware of just how MANY gullible, dimwitted, willfully ignorant, cruel, intolerant eejits there are in America. The fact that many of them also have a penchant for violence is extremely disturbing. He had a way of making them feel proud of being their repugnant selves.

lynnewilley.bsky.social•83 days ago

Please can you use your influence to get President Biden to give a pardon to everybody on trump's hit list.....like now before XMAS????

db0rg.bsky.social•83 days ago

I didn't forget

cb6112.bsky.social•83 days ago

Never Forget Never Forgive J6 it was a violent insurrection people were hurt and people died.

shirlsurely.bsky.social•83 days ago

The World will NEVER forget.For this & many other reasons he sullied the Office of the Presidency that was once a well-revered, well-respected & admired position in the World. He made America a Global laughingstock that the World looks at in disgust & with sympathy for those who tried to stop him

cbowdidge.bsky.social•83 days ago

How can anyone watch what happened on January 6, and just forget about it and re-elect the Mango Moron?

el-intrepido.bsky.social•83 days ago

This is why when you find a THREAD (being WEIRD, being a DRUNK) that bothers them, you must HYPER AMPLIFY to throw them off.
They are a cult; people do not understand this.
They don’t want to build, only destroy…

mebeforr.bsky.social•31 days ago

Congress and Senator,of course Democrats, do it. Not resign, not impeachment but give Trump blow. Trump blow also Putin blow, Elon hit.

chubbyavocado.bsky.social•83 days ago

MAGA’s animus has been brewing since the smart, likable Brown Man won the presidential election in November 2008.

eatonsbeaver.bsky.social•83 days ago

Look no further than Poor Rosie!!! Everything Trump threw at her resulted in Herpes!!!!! She should sue. Plus the word is sexist!!! Why aren’t there Hispes? But you didn’t support our day!!! Why???? You better post this as belated!!!

colonialdude.bsky.social•83 days ago

When children are brought up to hate by family members it’s difficult to teach them not to hate in the education system because parents have raised them this way. Hate is the real issue here and I don’t know how we can stop it. Trumpism has endorsed hate. What do we do?

mhwfg.bsky.social•83 days ago

This is beyond comprehension the level of Rotten Evil!

jellibean.bsky.social•83 days ago

I’m late to the “Wicked” storyline (books and the new movie). But holy shit. It’s about what we’re living through now! https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/jon-m-chu-wicked-reflects-american-conflicts-1235064250/

mid-sentry.bsky.social•83 days ago

Richard Wilson

More like Penis Penis

ludlumdrive.bsky.social•83 days ago

I said it and will say it again, we are here today as a country thanks to Rupert Murdock, who brought us FoxNews, giving credence to, making propaganda and hatred to the other side fashionable.

anti-socialrick.bsky.social•83 days ago

I call them Magtards, and they just keep making me feel better about it, over and over again.

dixynormiss.bsky.social•83 days ago

MAGA is like the schoolyard bully tough-guy. Everyone thinks he's cool and wants to be friends with the popular kid. They bully the easy targets and establish a bro-bond.

All the smart kids think they're idiots and see them for what they are, but are too weak to stand up to them. We've become them.

jnintc.bsky.social•83 days ago

And who would know better than you guys who really got this ball rolling in the 90's? Funny you monetized chaos and anti-Dem now you're racking it in from gullible libs. Quite impressive. No wonder Trump fears you, you're him but with a brain.

jlcny.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes, they always try to insult based on their fantasy about your life. Never fails. And they love the laughing emoji.

gimmesumtruth.bsky.social•83 days ago

It’s like millions of angry neighbors shouting “get off my lawn”.

brian011.bsky.social•83 days ago

You know what? Trump was right…I am sick of all the winning.

cujosmom.bsky.social•83 days ago

Call me a Lib I consider it a compliment, call me a libta*d it pisses me off not because of what they are saying to me but because they are insulting an intellectually disadvantaged group.

badgalahad.bsky.social•83 days ago

"All men like to fight". One of the finest speeches given by any American in its glorious history. We need more of that. No more sad-sacked obituaries of party and nation. I'm no longer voting for limp-wristed, performative governing. If Trump passes shit, it means DEMs could have, but chose no.

pd4twce.bsky.social•83 days ago

Keep believing in your own bullshit you’ll be just fine

mementomori4950.bsky.social•83 days ago

😏

xcott.bsky.social•83 days ago

These are the people so hardened and loathsome, that revenge is the only thing of value to them. They will claim to help but will create hollowness instead.

They do not know how to exist with others. Who else would have a billion dollars and be consumed with getting more.

jason-n.bsky.social•83 days ago

Exactly!!!

flocktoblue.bsky.social•82 days ago

What I’d give, what I would have given any time in the past years, is just one
M a g a, reading this or anything else informative & thought provoking, & thinking, “hmmm, I should take some of this in, have some introspection to better see what my primary motives are, what I support.” Just once!🇺🇸

tomshubert.com•83 days ago

It is actually more than just hate. There is a segment that is not about hate, but it's about getting ahead at all costs. They do not care about equity. They are capitalists in the purest sense, against regulation and limitation.

kmack56.bsky.social•83 days ago

When you lack critical thinking skills, this is all you are left with.

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