You libs need to own your problems and do better.
How to know you are in a cult
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You’re definitely it a cult if you believe this is even remotely normal. And reason #10,473 why providing true school choice in Iowa is a good thing.
*Congratulations*
You are in a cult.
LMAO! LOL! 
Gad Saad on Suicidal Empathy and Western Decline
"Suicidal Empathy..." That's how you know when you are in a cult.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gad-saad-on-suicidal-empathy-and-western-decline-cdae269f?st=xj8LB1
The threat to flee to Canada if a Republican is elected president has become a trope in American liberal politics, though few ever actually make the move. Gad Saad is about to do it in reverse.
Mr. Saad, 61, is an evolutionary psychologist, a professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of “Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind,” published in May, a cri de coeur against “maladaptively irrational altruism.” On immigration, crime, homelessness, taxation, schooling, environmentalism and transgenderism, he argues, Western elites have embraced policies that allow them to bask in a glow of self-satisfied virtue “while being fully decoupled from the negative consequences.”
In a conversation by Zoom from his home in Montreal, Mr. Saad says he has been driven from Canada by the “orgiastic commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity, or ‘DIE,’ across all Canadian institutions, but especially Canadian universities,” as well as by the unprecedented levels of antisemitism in the country. After Oct. 7, Jews, around 1% of Canada’s population, have been on the receiving end of 70% of all religion-related hate crimes.
Canada’s official reaction takes Mr. Saad’s breath away: “Mark Carney, the prime minister, has proudly proclaimed that Islamic and Canadian values are the same,” he says. The mayor of Toronto, Olivia Chow, “repeatedly mentions Islamophobia, because it would be too bigoted to reserve her empathy strictly to the Jews.” Suicidal empathy, he says, “requires that whenever Jews are attacked, Western leaders should urge us to redouble our efforts to defeat Islamophobia. To do otherwise would be mean, racist, bigoted.”
Mr. Saad has also had enough of Canada’s “soul-crushing parasitic taxation,” which has hit him afresh in the form of an exorbitant “departure tax.” The fair market value of his taxable assets will be calculated on the day of his departure from Canada. He will then be deemed to have sold and reacquired these assets, with the difference between the market value and the original purchase price being taxed as capital gains. “No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner,” he tweeted. He declines to say how much he expects to pay, but the top rate works out to more than 25% of the appreciation in value.
His move to the U.S., where he will be a professor at the University of Mississippi, will make him a two-time immigrant. Mr. Saad was born a Lebanese Jew. “It’s not an oxymoron, though it sounds like one,” he says. He was 11 when his family fled his native Beirut in 1975, at the outbreak of civil war. “It became impossible to be Jewish in Lebanon.” The Arabic-speaking Saad family, Mizrahi Jews, settled in Quebec.
If Anne selzer says so, it must be real.
Mr. Saad is taking license with his words.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not use the exact phrase "Islamic and Canadian values are the same." However, he did state that values celebrated during the Muslim holiday of Eid—specifically community, generosity, and sacrifice—are "Muslim values" and "Canadian values". [1, 2]
Carney made these comments during an Eid al-Adha address to the Muslim Association of Canada. In the speech, he said: "All of us must come together around the values of Eid... The values of community, of generosity and yes, of sacrifice. These are Muslim values. These are Canadian values". [1, 2]
These remarks were cited by commentators like Gad Saad (in the Wall Street Journal) as proclaiming that Islamic and Canadian values are equivalent, which sparked a broader public debate over how Canadian identity aligns with specific religious tenets
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney did not use the exact phrase "Islamic and Canadian values are the same." However, he did state that values celebrated during the Muslim holiday of Eid—specifically community, generosity, and sacrifice—are "Muslim values" and "Canadian values". [1, 2]
Carney made these comments during an Eid al-Adha address to the Muslim Association of Canada. In the speech, he said: "All of us must come together around the values of Eid... The values of community, of generosity and yes, of sacrifice. These are Muslim values. These are Canadian values". [1, 2]
These remarks were cited by commentators like Gad Saad (in the Wall Street Journal) as proclaiming that Islamic and Canadian values are equivalent, which sparked a broader public debate over how Canadian identity aligns with specific religious tenets
Calling the other political Party exactly what you are.
OP...don't ever change.
You bring humor and entertainment to the forum.
OP...don't ever change.
You bring humor and entertainment to the forum.
The cult is amusing with their deflection. They have spent an entire DECADE #MUSTGETTRUMP..... And they haven't............
"Cult" has become one of those words that's starting to lose all meaning. Kind of like "communist," "fascist," "socialist," and "Nazi."
Of course, if you understood how it applied in your own life, then maybe I'd grant you a pass.
Symptoms of a cult include isolation from the outside world, strict control over members' behavior and relationships, and a charismatic leader who demands loyalty. Other signs may involve emotional manipulation, love-bombing, and a totalitarian ideology that discourages critical thinking.
"My people are so smart -- and you know what else they say about my people? The polls?" Trump asked a crowd at a Sioux Center, Iowa, rally Saturday. "I have the most loyal people -- did you ever see that?"
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he said, referring to the major street in New York City that cuts through Manhattan's large commercial district. "It's, like, incredible."
"My people are so smart -- and you know what else they say about my people? The polls?" Trump asked a crowd at a Sioux Center, Iowa, rally Saturday. "I have the most loyal people -- did you ever see that?"
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" he said, referring to the major street in New York City that cuts through Manhattan's large commercial district. "It's, like, incredible."
