• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    But he claimed those around Trump often end up supporting whatever the president wants because he has a quality “that’s spellbinding.”

    “And I think it probably literally is a spell,” Carlson continued. “And the effect is to weaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. And I’ve experienced this myself. You spend a day with Trump and you’re in this kind of dreamland. It’s like smoking hash or something. It’s interesting, very interesting.”

    So the iran war happened because folks were high on trump’s… aura.

    What is even happening anymore.

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      Oh that’s easy. “We aren’t responsible for contributing to the destruction of our country and the murder of innocents, and neither are you dear viewers. You simply need to understand that the president is practicing witchcraft. Remove the witch and leave us in power and we’ll all do much better. Also you can’t prosecute someone who was hypnotized with a magic aura.”

      I simply refuse to consider the possibility that he’s just never experienced the narcissistic charisma before and actually was unable to resist it, much less consider it a defense.

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        Tucker is among the ones I hate the most because he genuinely is very intelligent. He chose to be a ratfucking hateful traitor, he didn’t stupid his way into it…

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          Yeah, I don’t think he’s a genius, he gives off real “third smartest kid in school” vibes to me (though that may just be because he reminds me of my high school bully). He knows better and if he doesn’t that’s a choice. Unlike the other major far right media personalities he didn’t fail at his goals and wind up here, he took opportunities and risks and they paid off. He could have been a centrist or mild right media darling forever, but no he became the go to mainstream media personality of the white nationalists.

          The reason I think he thinks he’s smarter than he is is that he overextended, and it’s not the first time. Then these comments may or not be great propaganda, idk, but they’re certainly self incriminating self defense. It’s a behavior I’ve seen so many people make when convinced they’re smarter than they are.

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      It’s a really strange thing for someone to mention. Coincidentally I had a college professor who once described something similar to our class about meeting Bill Clinton. He said everyone could “feel something” as he approached. Like a literal fuckin’ magical aura field, no joke.

      Makes me wonder if the conspiracies about occult magic stuff and “the elites” are based on something real. Epstein and the rest were into more fucked up shit than I ever really want to know.

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        probably just uncanny valley from them being sociopaths, they immitate human behavior to get what they want