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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1189590)	12/31/2019 10:54:10 PM
From: Heywood40	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578239

That's another JokeChimp lie, fresh out of your FatRumpLicking seatgroove.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1189590)	12/31/2019 11:05:41 PM
From: da_cheif™	1 Recommendation Recommended By Maple MAGA Respond to of 1578239

the saudi king wud prolly recommend that post

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1189590)	1/1/2020 7:35:45 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1578239

You sheep know how to obey.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1189590)

1/1/2020 7:40:40 AM

From: Brumar89

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Why are followers of Trump so verbally abusive when they are confronted with the truth (facts, not opinions, as they claim) about this criminal?

Judy Rofe, Controversial Aussie. Seeing it and saying it how it is.

Cult leaders emerge from festering societies in which individuals have been stripped of political, social and economic power. Those who believe they’ve been sabotaged and denigrated by a world they can't control, incline toward leaders who seem transcendent and can (they believe) guarantee the arrival to a legendary golden age. The more absurd the leader becomes, the more they mock the law and social conventions and in marches notoriety. Cult leaders are resistant to the standards of an established society. They demand a God-like power. Yet, they tend to forget, without followers, there’d be no cult. No cult leader.

donald trump has transmuted the decayed corpse of the Republican Party into a cult; a cult that mirrors his biases, perspectives, individual style and thoughts. His followers who were frantically searching for somebody to safeguard them and take care of their issues found their leader in the New York real estate salesman and unscripted ‘B’ Grade TV show actor. Cult leaders are driven by the death instinct; an instinct to demolish and obliterate instead of encouraging sustenance and creation. trump shares huge similarities of cult leader traits including Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles, the founders of the Heaven's Gate faction; and David Koresh, who drove the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas.

Cult leaders are narcissists. They demand docile grovelling and absolute compliance. They prize dedication above competence. They desire supreme control. They do not endure criticism. They are profoundly insecure, a trait they endeavour to conceal with ranting grandiosity. They are irreverent and emotionally and physically offensive. They see everyone around them as articles to be controlled for their own empowerment, enjoyment and regularly perverted entertainment.

Cult leaders control followers essentially through language, not force. This linguistic control is a steady procedure. It is established through persistent confusion and lies, together with fear inspired notions, bizarre thoughts and conflicting statements. All this serves to challenge reality and incapacitate the opposition. trump pays no attention to his announcements and consistently denies making them, even when they are clearly documented. Lies and truth make not one iota of difference to him. His language is structured to induce the passionate needs of those who follow him.

Hitler kept his foes in a state of consistent disarray and political turbulence. Just think about that for a moment. No one knew what this erratic lunatic would do next. He was rarely logical, in light of the fact that he realised that that was what he was expected to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot and it befuddles those individuals who think straight.

The cult leader grooms his followers to communicate in the language of abhorrence and ferocity. trump hurled fuel on the flames and used this kind of ambush against a great deal of the administration of the Democratic Party to again assault the press, or, as he calls it, “the enemy of the people.”

“A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News,” he tweeted. “It has gotten so bad and hateful that is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its acts, FAST!” The use of language as a weapon is multiplied through his tweets. It is witnessed in the contemptible rhetoric that epitomises a significant number of trump’s political crusades for the end term elections.

Cults externalise evil. Evil is typified in the defamed other, whether it be frantic immigrants, black political candidates and voters, or the Democratic Party. The best way to cleanse this "evil" and re-establish America to "greatness" is to destroy these human contaminants.

trump, in contrast to a conventional government official, makes no attempt to connect with his adversaries. Instead, he broadens the divisions and marks those outside the cult as irredeemable. He looks for the power to crush the individual who does not bow in adoration to him. The followers, longing to be reassured they are protected and empowered by the cult leader, look to give him supremacy. Democracy, an obstruction to the leader’s supremacy, is attacked and abrogated. Those encompassed by the faction chief's enchanted emanation find everything outside their feigned world impermissible as their own truth is sacrificed for dreams and fantasy.

And those, the likes of you and I, who challenge their dream are not viewed as human. We are Satanic.

Look south if you want a vision of your future.

To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1189590)	1/1/2020 8:05:54 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1578239

PUTIN ORDERED THEFT OF CLINTON'S EMAILS FROM DNC, RUSSIAN HACKER CONFESSES BY CRISTINA MAZA ON 12/12/17 AT 12:58 PM EST Russian hacker accused of stealing from Russian banks reportedly confessed in court that he hacked the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) and stole Hillary Clinton's emails under the direction of agents from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). According to Russian news site The Bell, Konstantin Kozlovsky, a Russian citizen working for a hacker group called Lurk, confessed to hacking Clinton's emails during a hearing about his arrest in August. An audio recording and minutes from the hearing were posted on Kozlovsky's Facebook page, and their authenticity was reportedly confirmed by The Bell. In a handwritten letter that also appears in a photo on his Facebook page, Kozlovsky admits to hacking the DNC on the orders of an FSB agent he called "Ilya." If confirmed, the hacker's claims could prove that President Vladimir Putin's government was behind the hacking of the DNC, despite the Kremlin's insistence that it was not involved. U.S. intelligence services have determined that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and was involved in stealing emails from the DNC. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike concluded last year that the DNC's emails had been breached by hackers associated with the FSB and Russian military intelligence. "CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings identifying two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries present in the DNC network in May 2016," the company said in a statement. Some of the hacked emails were released by WikiLeaks in July 2016, just in time for the Democratic National Convention. Reportedly, the CIA later identified Russian officials who fed material hacked from the DNC to WikiLeaks under Putin's orders. Clinton's emails also have been the subject of multiple investigations into whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Donald Trump Jr. and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have admitted to meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 who promised that she had dirt on Clinton. Both men later claimed that the lawyer did not provide the promised material. Dusty@DustinGiebel Wow. Ruslan Stoyanov, the former head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Lab, on how RU gets their hackers t.co In this context, it is tempting to view Kozlovsky's confession as the smoking gun needed to link the Kremlin to the hacks. Nevertheless, experts say there are reasons to be skeptical of the confession. Many of the individuals implicated in Kozlovsky's letter are currently on the bad side of the Russian government. For example, Kozlovsky identified his FSB handler as Dmitry Dokuchaev, a cybersecurity expert who worked as a hacker before joining the FSB. Dokuchaev, who used the moniker "Forb," has been linked to a group of hackers called Shaltai Boltai, or Humpty Dumpty, that published emails from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and other Kremlin officials. The Kremlin has accused him of being a double agent working with U.S. intelligence services. Dokuchaev is accused in the U.S. of hacking about 500 million Yahoo email accounts in 2014. He appears on the FBI's most wanted list. Dmitry Dokuchaev, an officer in Russia's Federal Security Service, is accused in the U.S. of hacking about 500 million Yahoo email accounts in 2014.REUTERS Kozlovsky also names Kaspersky Lab official Ruslan Stoyanov, who is currently jailed in Russia on charges of treason for allegedly leaking information about Russian hackers to the U.S. government. In September, the U.S. government ordered all federal agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab software from their networks, alleging that the company is linked to Russian spy networks. Kaspersky has denied that it is tied to the Kremlin, but experts say it would be almost impossible for a company as large as Kaspersky to operate in Russia without cooperating with the government in some way. To some, it appears that Kozlovsky's confession conveniently targets enemies of the Kremlin and provides Putin with an opportunity to claim that the hack was ordered by rogue elements. "[The confession] puts the blame on a narrow group of people who are already in prison, and it moves the blame to an outsourced hack. This would allow Putin to pretend to be shocked that there are hackers in Russia doing this," Mark Galeotti, a researcher on Russian crime at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, told Newsweek. "The FSB is prone to employ outside hackers and gives them a choice of working with the FSB or go to prison," he said. What's more, Galeotti said, it's unlikely the confession letter would have been leaked from prison and added to Kozlovsky's Facebook page unless someone higher up wanted it to be seen. Meanwhile, some experts say that Kozlovsky likely had his own reasons for pointing a finger at the two men. Andrei Soldatov, co-author of the book the Red Web and an expert on Russian cybersecurity, said he believes Kozlovsky invented the story about his direction from the FSB for personal gain. "I've been communicating with [Kozlovsky] for four months, and he has failed to give me any proof or answer my questions," Soldatov told Newsweek. Kozlovsky's former hacking group has been accused of stealing more than $17 million from Russian financial institutions with the help of a computer virus. Stoyanov, who worked for Kaspersky's investigative unit, was allegedly one of the individuals who helped put Kozlovsky and the rest of his hacker group in prison. "He was put in jail by these guys so it could be out of revenge, or he wanted to make a deal with the FSB," Soldatov said. newsweek.com