As someone who had severe TDS until June of this year, watching these smear campaigns come out nonstop is insane. I used to fall for them. I believed them. I have posted about how hard it is to pull yourself out of that TDS because you have to admit that you are easily manipulated and you were wrong.
I can finally see how they do it. On the outside looking in now, I compare it to being the sober person in a room with a bunch of drunk people you used to drink with - I’m sure a lot of you know that feeling. They look and act ridiculous, and it’s embarrassing. You want to help them, but they won’t listen.
It is slow and methodical brainwashing. They don’t realize they have been initiated into a cult of lies and propaganda. Again, it is HARD to walk away from that. I have heard it being compared to having to knock down your internal belief system and completely rebuild. That is how it felt for me.
Anyway, my point is - Women for Trump and f*ck your feelings!
*Edited to add - for those of you who asked what it was that finally opened my eyes...
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The bleach day was the first day I felt a little stirring in my brain/heart. I knew what he said. I was watching it. I saw how the media and the dems went after him. I used to refuse to watch him because, well, orange man bad. So I started looking into other things I had believed he had done or said that made me sooooo mad. Imagine my surprise when I found out I had been lied to over and over again and the MSM is complete bullshit.
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I live in FL and listened to Ron DeSantis talk about Covid almost every day. I HATED that dude, too. He had his baby building a wall in his campaign commercials! I thought he was a racist POS. The more I listened to him, the more I liked what he had to say. He would also clarify a lot of the things the media was saying Trump had said. I would look them up and sure enough, he was right.
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Riots and looting. Obvious pandering. The McCloskeys. I could go on and on. The day that I finally swallowed a whole damn Costco-sized bottle of red pills was the day I saw 200 “peaceful protesters” storm a Walmart and completely decimate it.
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The most important part of all of this is you CANNOT DO IT without acknowledging you were wrong. When I was listening to DeSantis, I started really researching his background and I was SO embarrassed that I ever thought I knew more about ANYTHING than this guy. His career has been amazing and I should be THANKFUL he is representing me. Once I realized that, I really dug deep into my own feelings and biases. You know what I found? Enough guilt that it actually made me cry. I felt so guilty about the bad vibes and energy I had sent out into the world toward these people. I almost went through a short little depression. I felt like I had to apologize. I actually sent DeSantis’s office an email thanking him for how he has led FL through all of this chaos. When I first got red-pilled, it wasn’t really pro-Trump. It was anti-bullshit. The more doses I take, the more I feel proud of the guy! He has worked his ass off for this country and he deserves our respect. I have also really come to appreciate how he is the biggest troll to ever troll because I know EVERYTHING he does is for a specific purpose.
I hope that helps and maybe you can share this with people you know who are on the verge...
Mine was the whole bleach thing. I was actually watching him speak that day and then I saw how the media ran with it. It made me start looking into what else they had lied to me about.
In the beginning I voted for Trump only because I was a Never-Hillary'er. I knew she was an evil bitch and there was no way in hell was I voting for her. Since then it's only become even more obvious how absolutely satanic she is, I mean the word "evil" doesn't even do it justice.
As for Trump, I think I got a lot more than I bargained for, in a good way. He has exceeded my wildest expectations, and he could have done so much more if the communists and the corrupt media hadn't been dead set against him the entire time.
I feel like they robbed us all of his first term and it pisses me off. I was never the type of person who hated Democrats for their differing views. But I really and truly hate them for how vile and obstructionist they’ve been for the whole presidency.
Same. Fuckers actively hate America or actively support those who hate America.
The weaponized media and the global sellout of sovereignties to UN shill entities has created the worst circumstances this world could have never imagined.
They have robbed everyone of their time on this earth. And it deserves to be paid back.
They'll do the same for his second term too. All Democrats do is obstruct actual progress. They want to hurl us into degeneracy and decay and death.
I have voted for my husband's choice in the past. He's been very informed for years, and though I didn't believe Dem politicians and activists were evil or severely misled - now I do - I respected his well-read opinions (though sometimes he would just quote out a theDonald thing without looking at the source, and it would be wrong - hehe). I did not vote in 2016. Voted in 2018 and will be happily voting in 2020. I have been super well-read the last few years, reading Spygate, Ship of Fools, Unfreedom of the Press, 1984, The Righteous Mind, Enemy of the State (half), Plague of Corruption, and Escape from Camp 14 (a story of North Korean who survived a North Korean labor camp - REALLY hard emotionally to read - desolate as hell). Obviously most of those are written by conservative authors, but I'd rather not brainwash myself. I still look at what Leftists say, and I especially pay attention when it's not a canned phrase like "Trump's a clown."
Wonderful personal account and list of books. May I recommend the mother of all philosophical red pills and maybe the greatest literary work of the 20th century - Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn. He was an ardent communist captain for the red army in WWII who was sent to the gulags first making a joke about Stalin and made it his secret life’s work to document the stories of those in the prisons and what it was like. The soviets tried to assassinate him when he won the Nobel prize. Very long epic but an incredible piece of work and worth taking the time.
Yep 2016 elections. I was like "wait, wasnt he meant to lose and lose big from what I've heard? What am i missing here?"
To marry someone on the opposite end of the pol spectrum is relationship suicide and just plain dumb.
I found someone who was ideologically floating around and was seduced by the left when I met her a few weeks after Trump was elected and I helped her see the other side. We’re getting married in May and she’s an ardent Trump supporter now :)
Hell ya fren! Make lots of conservative babies.
You mean ‘sexiest’ party. 😏
Never really had the TDS, but the Koi Fish Feeding-gate was a key "if they'll lie about something this stupid, what else are they lying about?" moment for me.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/358983-media-shows-why-its-so-mistrusted-after-falsified-trump-fish-feeding
That was horrific abuse of Truth....
The MSM is the enemy of Truth....
America needs a NEW NEWS MEDIA - 100% ALL NEW, top to bottom.
I was always independent and not one of Trump's cheerleaders, but seeing the full video of that and comparing it to the media narrative was my first deep redpilling moment.
This should really be an important lesson not just about Trump but about gaining perspective. Your opinion of the man was formed by what other people told you. You should never do this with anything. Take the information and take the time to verify it with your own research.
And don't use google as a search engine. They will put a bunch of negative things at the top if they don't agree with the premise or subject of your search, and bury the thing you're searching for. Example: plandemic. Sometimes bing is okay but right now I just typed in "Clinton body" which should autocomplete with "count" and it was blank. My go-to is duckduckgo.com - not perfect either, but what are you gonna do.
Really would like to hear more about your journey to MAGA. Must have been some ups and downs along the way. Hopefully, more ups.
I've always said, no one who actually watched the briefing thought the president asked people to inject bleach. Only people who didn't actually watch it believe that, and that is a testament to the fakeness of the news.
I've never had TDS but I boarded the train during the debates. I saw him getting attacked constantly and thought: "Literally everyone agrees that career politicians, Hollywood elites, and the mainstream media suck, so shouldn't we probably pay attention to the man that those three groups hate and attack the most?"