Regardless of his actions, she still loves him as a member of her family. Just like her dog.
It will be interesting to see MAGA’s take on it. Is finding a new partner ok to them in this scenario, or should she be the subservient all-accepting wife?
I don’t often want to know MAGA’s opinion on anything, but to watch them come to an impassable intersection of their values will be fascinating.
Cons and magats live with cognitive dissonance every day. This is nothing new
Yes. It’s a feature, not a bug, and the propaganda is made to do this by design: if you can keep someone in cognitive dissonance, you can feed them whatever cognitive slop you want, and then they have to find a way to explain it to themselves and keep believing, or face the consequences of realizing the whole thing is a lie, which are usually too high to bear. And it just piles on.
This is part of why the Trump Republicans hate James Talarico so much: he is showing the MAGA crowd you can (and should) be able to keep your Christianity and still ditch Trump, the two are not connected in any actual way except by propaganda. I think urban folks don’t realize just how hard this conflation of MAGA and Christianity has been pumped in rural regions: to leave Trump is to face hellfire. To many of us that sounds ridiculous, and it is, but I’m not joking: they’ve made it so that to be Christian is to be MAGA, and to ditch Trump is to desert Christianity itself.
Strangely enough, the cognitive dissonance is also the weakest point in the whole scheme, and is why the trip out of cognitive manipulation often starts with the tiniest, often unnoticeable piece that doesn’t fit: it sticks in their head and refuses to be argued away, and then something else happens, and something else. Cult deprogramming is all about this, allowing people physical space and time to find their own way out of the mental hole without ever actually forcing them to do so.
It’s why getting rid of the news as infotainment is so critically important if we can ever get out of this mess: that’s the source of the propaganda that keeps it going for the hardcore MAGA believers no matter what their orange god does.
Yeah… Now you mention it… Has anyone seen the dog??
(Not actually blindsided because she almost certainly had it leaked)
Why would she do that I wonder?
She may be stupid enough to:
- Believe this will change the narrative on her relationship with Lewandowski, her profligate spending, and the fact that it all led to her firing
- Believe this will make her more sympathetic with the public to lay the ground work for having some kind of political career in the future
Or she may be getting ahead of something, maybe her husband was starting to change his tune on the idea of being a loyal cuckold.
If you assume these people are completely vapid, self-serving, and totally incapable of actual loving relationships, and above all - operating with a real deficit of intellectual and emotional intelligence; all of which appear to be rock solid assumptions, none of the options I proposed seem very far fetched.
Ah ok the whole Lewandowski thing was news to me so I understand yeah. Maybe she’s trying to make a case for a favourable divorce settlement also.
"I don’t give a fuck who they’re screwing in private
I wanna know who they’re screwing in public"
This bitch puts children in cages. Ridicule and shame her and her family for hypocrisy all you want, it’s well deserved, but the fact that this even matters is pretty wild.
The only acceptable target for bullying is MAGA. Open season.
Lots of other verbs, too
Absolutely. It’s no mystery that in a Venn diagram they are nearly a circle.
I dont know why I should care about this. Is this supposed to be politics?
This is the party accusing drag Queens of pedophilia. They decided to make this politics instead of real issues in society.
Okay, I see.
It’s a sham marriage anyway, she’s with lewandowski, quite publicly. Her mar a lago face will turn him off soon now that she’s out of power, yuck. Yuck, yuck, yuck. She looked better before the surgery, and now she has to take her face off and put it in a jar of adrenochrome every night. Fucking puppy murdering bitch, go to hell.
Krusty Gnome taking L after L. You love to see it.
Lol there was black mail over this?
We don’t know his kinks, maybe he’s into black males
The evidence is coming out
Buttery males
I mean if the Daily Mail found it then you can be sure that foreign intelligence found it way earlier. There’s a reason you’re supposed to do background checks and vetting for high level government officials. Since Trump doesn’t give a shit about all that I wouldn’t be surprised if more of his cronies aren’t actively being blackmailed.
Also possible that Daily Mail found it out from foreign intelligence, maybe even as a consequence of Noem losing her value as a source.
Donvict is more worried about how they look - he is more concerned that they look like they came out of “central casting”. The stupid dumbass thinks this is Hollywood.
Background checks are more to find actual wrongdoing like criminal activity.
It’s more a problem of current American society that this is considered blackmail material at all.
Not when it comes to security clearances. There are certainly some convictions that will disqualify a person from even applying, but also plenty where you could have a misdemeanor conviction in your past and still get a security clearance if it doesn’t make you blackmailable.
But they check for things like alcohol abuse, drug habits, sexual behavior, debt, gang affiliations, and any other dark secrets that could make you susceptible to bribery or blackmail. Cause if you have a security clearance and then fall for a foreign honeypot, it’s bad news.
Unless you’re a billionaire, member of congress, or otherwise born into the political elite, of course. Then they get you with the Israeli honeypot just for good measure, but they’ll still give you a security clearance in that case because then they get to control you.
That’s why it was such a big deal when trump forced clearances through for all his cabinet picks without proper investigations. Because if proper investigations were actually done, none of them would have qualified…
they check for things like alcohol abuse, drug habits, sexual behavior, debt, gang affiliations, and any other dark secrets that could make you susceptible to bribery or blackmail
Yes. When I was interviewed by the FBI, because a friend of mine was seeking a clearance, this kind of thing was all they wanted to talk about. That was a couple decades ago, though.
How was she supposed to keep track of what happens in her own home while she was jetsetting around on her fuck plane with her subordinate?
Does Lewandowski really count as her subordinate if he was the one who was running the show the whole time? all she really did was get her hair done, shoot ads for her YouTube channel, and get fucked in the back of a private jet. And then later in front of Congress.
So this is the drag queen we were supposed to be worried about?
I wish my local movie theatre had this level of projection.
It’s called iMax, no?
If you look at the pictures he’s clearly dressed as Kristi Gnome
I wonder how this ties into all the cosplaying she was doing, at taxpayer expense.
Is he a lumberjack? Is he OK?
Does he work all night and sleep all day?
he cuts down trees, he skips and jumps, he likes to press wild flowers
Nothing wrong with crossdressing. Though it sounds like he sent some of the pictures to others without consent which is much more of a problem of course (harassment)
But if he wants to dress up as a girl, why not.
He didn’t dress up as a girl. He dressed up as a man, with giant knockers.
Yes true, I saw the actual pics after. It looks less like a real crossdresser to me and rather like a sophomoric joke that leaked.
I made that point elsewhere in the thread but I hadn’t seen the pic when I made the above comment.
People that don’t like to kink shame but also hate Noem must be sweating right now.
Not really. It’s pretty easy to separate kink shaming from hypocrisy shaming. No one’s doing the former, but we are doing a lot of the latter.
Yep. They only look similar to people trying to win points or defend the guy over rampant hypocrisy.
No not really. They’re two separate issues.
This is the problem with conservatives, they’re all about loyalty so you must follow the company line or you’re out. If someone is marked bad there can’t be anything not bad about them. We progressives don’t have that.
I can totally accept this kink and still hate Noem. I just can’t use it as mud to sling at her but I don’t have to because there’s plenty of much more relevant wrongdoing she’s guilty of. This doesn’t even have much to do with her at all.
Cross dressing isn’t even inherintly a kink.
Either way its easy to shame them for being hypocrites and pieces of shit so ¯\(ツ)/¯
These fucking people… It’s literally all projection, always.
The party of “traditional family values,” everyone. If we manage to hold anything even remotely resembling free and fair elections in the future, the first order of business afterwards will need to be replacing all upholstery any of them have touched.
