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The Four Agreements of the Cult [1]

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Date: 2023-08-22

“How could I fool you I rest and assure you Take it off from here and put you on the line, yeah Your back to the pistol and iron bullets whistle Landscape's open and the world is mine, it's still mine” O.D.'d On Life Itself--Blue Öyster Cult From the album: Tyranny and Mutation

Are you someone who constantly feels THEY are out to get you? Do you despise everything THEY stand for? Do you believe that THEY are trying to hurt your leader? Do you even know who THEY are…or THEM for that matter? Rest assured, whoever THEY are, THEY are not US.

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, welcome to the cult. You are officially not a part of the ‘woke radical left’ or the RINOs. Oh sure, conservatism is dead…but that is a small price to pay to protect the dear leader, AKA: TFG. You have O.D.’d on Life Itself.

Now, you must adhere to The Four Agreements. They are as follows:

Be Imbecilic With Your Word

Speak with insanity. Say only what Ben Shapiro and Newsmax tell you to say. Avoid using the word to say anything loving or compassionate about your fellow human beings. Use the power of your word in the direction of conspiracies and paranoia and a complete lack of empathy .

Take Everything Personally

What others say and do is a direct critique about you and your lifestyle choices. You must strive to be the victim of the opinions and actions of others. Consider taking classes to improve your whining skills in between episodes of OANN and Joe Rogan.

Always Make Assumptions

Never ask questions. Don’t read. Resist education. Foster misunderstandings. Embrace sadness and drama. Remember that when you assume, you make an ass out of U and ME. With this one agreement, you can transform the world into a dark and desperate place.

Always Do Your Worst

Your worst is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are listening to AM talk radio as opposed to mainlining Newsmax. Under any circumstance, simply do your worst, and you can judge everyone else as evil and unwashed. Your worst will feed an internal need to be a walking/talking piece-of-shit human.

Now that you have agreed to the above, you are free to follow a noun-challenged, verbal-diarrhea con-man who speaks only in adjectives and superlatives and likes to use the words ‘strong’ and ‘best’ in his breathless, diatribe of divisive and vulgar language, mastering logorrhea.

Yes, it’s time to upgrade your wardrobe with a few hundred dollars in TFG 2024 swag, get yourself a red hat. I mean, c’mon, fuck Michael Luddig. Who is he? Other than a life-long, well-respected, conservative judge? Who is he to join up with a radical-left constitutional scholar Lawrence Tribe to explain that the founders wrote the Fourteenth Amendment in order to protect the country from a demagogue and wannabe dictator? Luddig is not part of the cult. Luddig is a RINO.

Remember when the GOP was all about character and policy? Those were fun times.

Sohe Craytes

For those of us Boomers who grew up with intellectual conservatives like William F. Buckley and George Will, today’s middle-school brainiacs are something at which to marvel. We grew up with men and women who were not just well-read intellectuals, but people who understood history. Not just the history of the United States, but the geopolitical history of the world. These global intellectuals of the conservative movement have been replaced by broken, junior high school level, children whose arguments are built on their own brokenness. They are walking/talking advertisements for an unexamined life…for people who clearly have never done ‘their work.’

Look at the ‘leading’ voices of ‘conservatism’ today versus the people who built the movement in the 20th century. The brilliant intellectuals have now officially left the party as the GOP has embraced absolute circus clowns like Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro…supposedly grown men who are the emotional equivalent of a twelve-year-old, and the intellectual capacity of a trilobite.

The Cult has basically wiped out any vestiges of intelligence and replaced true conservatism with a brand of whiny, insane, and downright stupid people. The Cult leader is going to protect you from all these old RINOs…as well as all intellectual debate. Gone are the days of amazingly smart people who could bring their ideas into the forum and debate multi-faceted views. Before TFG, democracy was a negotiation. Each ‘side’ would bring in their best arguments and a robust and intelligent debate would take place. The ‘moderates’ of the world kept the crazies in check and solutions would be hashed out…sometimes a little to the left, sometimes a little to the right, but ALWAYS for the good of the country. TFG has turned democracy into a battle, a holy war, where only one side can be right and where the enemy must be destroyed.

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” --Socrates

We have over a century of demagogues and dictators to know, all too well, what we are witnessing with today’s GOP. The embrace of illiberal-ism is manifest. A country that was built on rejecting the rule of one person now has a political party infatuated with a cult leader and a rejection of the rule of law. Escape from cults is monumental, more difficult than quitting heroin. If only Bill and Ted could go back in time and bring back “Sohe Craytes” to enlighten today’s GOP. Most importantly, the voices of reason, the moderates, the intellectuals have been exorcised from the party and are not there to provide The Bulwark to the destruction that is happening in front of our eyes. The Cult is now so dangerous that more people believe the Cult leader than their own pastors and religious leaders. The embrace of Messianic logic mirrors every autocratic uprising of the past century.

The end of The Cult is going to bring even more pain and mentally disturbed individuals. Who will be there to pick up the pieces and rebuild the conservative movement? In the meantime, the guy who said “I don’t want your money” is sending out 30+ emails a day begging for $5 donations? Don’t Fear the Reaper.

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