"Trump Supporters Are Indistinguishable From Jim Jones Cultists

Sounds like you need a mirror to understand who has selective outrage on this one.

Trump is The Outrage.

"Conservative Icon P.J. O'Rourke Will Vote For Hillary. Why?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/conservative-icon-pj-orourke-will-vote.html

"P.J. O'Rourke On Trump, Trumpistas And The Futility Of Drug Tests: Test For Stupidity, Ignorance, Greed And The Love Of Power"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/pj-orourke-on-trump-trumpistas-and.html

Yeah he always said he wanted to maintain the wars and conflicts we are involved in didn't he.

Looks like General James "Mad Dog" Mattis needs a mirror too.

In Stern Rebuke To Trump, Gen. Mattis Sees "Storm Clouds Gathering" And America "Withering"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/in-stern-rebuke-gen-jim-mattis-sees.html

Three Laugh-Out-Loud Moments: Mattis, Borowitz, Pacino-Mueller
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/three-laugh-out-loud-moments-mattis.html

"Jim Mattis Describes Trump As A Dolt Who Does Not Read And Has No Interest In Learning"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/jim-mattis-describes-trump-as-dolt-who.html

saw the very same fawning over Obama,and to a lesser extent bush and Clinton.

I find it interesting that this rise in cult of personality in regards to political figures coincides with the 24/7 news cycle.

it is almost as if the 24/7 news cycle was more interested in creating soap opera narratives to generate money,rather than actually disseminate the news of the day.
and instead engaged in the "message of the day" and created a conflict narrative more akin to WWF than critical examination of current events.

an ocean of beautiful people reading from a teleprompter,and the rise of a handsomely compensated pundit class to bring all the excited,and drama,and fabricated outrage to spoon feed to the ignorant masses.

because outrage media is big money.

Your criticism of the 24/7 news cycle and corporate publishing's need "to sell papers" by emphasizing conflict is apt.

However, at a certain point -- and in modern times the "threshold" of a "certain point" is typically crossed in fascist regimes -- politics morphs from quantitative change into qualitative change.

What "went down" under Hitler and Mussolini is now going down under Trump. (I stress "under" for Malignant Messiah is a hobnailed boot, perping palpable evil by the day.)

Consider:

"Conservative Icon P.J. O'Rourke Will Vote For Hillary. Why?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/conservative-icon-pj-orourke-will-vote.html

Trump's crimes against humanity are not trivial.

"Family Separation And The Deportation Of Parents Constitute Kidnapping And Human Trafficking"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/family-separation-and-parent.html

"New England Journal Of Medicine Determines The Lethality Of Trump's Family Separation Policy"
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-england-journal-of-medicine.html

My Own Contact With Family Separation, And The Young Girl Who Died
(The Story Of UNC-CH Public Health Professor John Hatch)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/my-own-contact-with-family-separation.html

If you are not yet open to David Cay Johnston's message, I predict you will agree with him before the Trumpist calamity reaches its bitter end.

David Cay Johnston: "Trump Is Not A Loyal American... We Have A Traitor In The White House"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/david-cay-johnston-trump-is-not-loyal.html

how about an upvote lover?

that upvote was mine...;)

you rock my man!

;)

Dude, I haven't forgotten that I owe you 3 replies from the last 2 weeks.
The last one, real nice words, I didn't know what to respond, then it turns out there was no reply option when I went to wing it anyways. Then there's the Scorpious one, and another about Obama's multiple war engagements he began, etc.

Tablet going wonky on me. A few quick replies to trolls, then when I get to the beefy stuff that merits more detail, it freaks right as I get one done and off I am again.

Sorry about the dealy, gotta go look for them when I get back.

There was another from months ago too, but I'll never find it, haha...

I have found that learning is largely a function of repetition.

Please critique P.J. O'Rourke's observation that Trump belongs to a qualitatively different category of political decadence, degeneration, malice and ineptitude than any of the national politicians on the Democratic roster.

"Conservative Icon P.J. O'Rourke Will Vote For Hillary. Why?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/conservative-icon-pj-orourke-will-vote.html