Exactly. You vote for the Leopards Eating Peoples' Faces Party because you want to watch the leopards eating someone's face. You just never believe it will be your face.

“Why did you vote for him?” a member of Congress asked.

“Because I was an idiot,” the veteran replied.

This was him speaking to congress, seems he learned.

the problem is that someone else is suffering the day he voted for, he is just upset the government took his property

Evangelical Christians just want to hear that they're going to be rewarded for their suffering. Catholics as well. The Rapture, Heaven, Honoring the Son of God...

It's a whole group of miserable people who are desperate for affirmation that their misery has meaning. Then they groom their children into miserable lives, and pressure strangers into being miserable as well. It's incredibly sad.

thoughts and prayers for the Evangelical Christians

Who’s doing the lying?

…. He goes on to say that he and his wife were both ministers. Seems like they’d be part of spreading the lie

Some San Diego cop found out the same thing a few weeks ago. They arrested, and deported, his British wife. IIRC that was at her final immigration hearing, where she would have been given a green card.

the lie was so outrageously evident, I cannot believe anyone is stupid enough to buy it

Well there is precedent for that, religion for example. Fox News another example

Working around a few of them, the biggest factor I can tell is that they've been sheltered and groomed their whole life to think that way. Anything else would just seem foreign. (Like trying to convince a Christian that Jesus wasn't white, if he was ever real)

Since a lot of these beliefs are so ingrained into their psyche, an existential crisis, like what he may be experiencing, is likely one of the few things that can work.

The only silver lining here is that if this dude has actually changed his mind, he's probably got better access to change other people's minds than any of us who never fell for the lies.

I cannot believe anyone is stupid enough to buy it

I know some very smart engineers that totally bought into his stupid lies. Like. Wtf. How can they be methodical in gathering facts for debugging software bugs, but then also completely fail to think for 2 seconds about any trump claims.

He still vote for Trump its a fucking cult they don't learn.

I promise you despite all this they still don't have awareness of others. They only care that they are impacted.

something something one of the good ones.

Your last paragraph is what surprises me the most, because that's just not the case. Project 2025 was very clear, they weren't lied to, they just heard what they wanted to hear.

Conservatives broadly fine care about suffering and hardship unless it directly and specifically affects them. Even then it doesn't always sink in, either.

Man I feel bad for that kid. The wife should know better, but the kids just there

We've got a family of psychopaths loving below us, from some Eastern European country. They'll bang on their ceiling if we move around after 9 pm. He tried to actually prohibit it, but I told him no, not politely. My landlord seems to hate them, too. They were trying to get his attention on the sidewalk a while back, and he barked at them "I told you that I don't want to hear from you unless your place is on fire!" He likes us, though.

But ever since Trump took office again, and ICE started rounding people up, these people have been SILENT. No banging on the ceiling , no dirty looks, no monopolizing the courtyard, etc.

I'm pretty sure they're just flying under the radar, knowing that we could make their lives miserable with one phone call. I wouldn't do it, but if the tables were turned, I have no doubt that they would dime us out in a heartbeat.

That's because you shouldn't. Don't ever sympathize with nazis.

His wife did, look where it got her.

It just isn't real until it affects them personally

Lacking empathy ?

"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think 1 have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.Evil. I think. is the absence of empathy."

• Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. [...1 This loss of empathy laid the groundwork for some of humanity's darkest moments. " - Hannah Arendt

The group doesn't care about fellow members of their group. Famously, they each care only about themselves.

I love this so much, I'm gonna steal it.

Yeah, we might be drowning. But, at least we get the satisfaction of watching their head sink under first.

well known to be a pathological lying criminal narcissist

You forgot "pedophile".

Oh they will. The liberals must pay for what Trump did.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, i'm a republican and I'll step on that rake until I die of rake induced internal bleeding"

Posting his political affiliations online for anyone in this day and age probably won't help his case.

Something, something, tan suit

The worser the better

most likely? he either deeply believes in them or he’s using them as a tool and id say these things are indistinguishable given his actions